Description:  “Debates rage over whether energy generated by uranium induced nuclear fission is beneficial or harmful. The debate often settles into familiar bipartite arguments of nuclear power plants versus nuclear bombs. However, this article demonstrates that this approach is too narrow; the threats to land and livelihoods generated purely from the extraction process are substantial but unknown or ignored, as the Topnaar Nama people in Namibia are discovering.”

Weblink:  https://unpo.org/content/view/9336/262/?id=9336

Resource Type(s):  Article/Post

Location:  (Universal)

Accessibility:  Online-Free

Wellness Domains:  Earth, Earthlings, Human Society, Personal

  

Harmful Practices Critiqued:  Nuclear Power, Mining, Chemical, Nuclear Weapons, Violating Indigenous Sovereignty, Social Inequality