The unseen starvation caused by 21st century environmental protectors
Steven Lyazi Member, International Board of Advisors for Environmentalists for Nuclear – USA, website: efn-usa.org Kampala, Uganda
World environmental protectors would like to imprison most fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas) and nuclear energy (uranium and thorium) resources underground and bury perfectly good spent nuclear fuel and depleted uranium for the sake of their view of preserving, caring for and safe guarding the environment. If this mission succeeds, Africa will have many graveyards. It is estimated that recoverable natural gas on federal lands of US is 635 trillion cubic feet, which is enough to heat and power 60 million US homes for 160 years. Also federal lands are estimated to have 112 billion barrels of recoverable oil which is enough to provide gasoline for 60 million cars and fuel oil for 25millions US homes for 60 years from now. The estimated figures for cars, homes and years can double or triple when used in Africa. A lot of the land and coastal areas where minerals and other resources are located in Africa, Asia, Europe or America are owned by governments, which should represent all people in a country. People should have an equal share and right to this natural cake. But, this has mostly been a benefit of well off and the rich. It is wrong for environmental groups and foundations in the rich nations to try to restrict use of fossil fuels and nuclear energy everywhere, in order to impose their vision of the environment at the expense of the rest of humanity. Locking up fossil fuels and nuclear energy has been the goal of anti-nuclear and environmental groups based in North America and Europe for half a century. Forcing
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