The nuclear train.

In his oral intervention, Joseph decided to deal with a contemporary issue: the ecology. More precisely, he chose an article relating the incident between ecolo-activists and the german police, with a train carrying nuclear wastes on background. Indeed, France sent nuclear wastes to Germany, as they agreed, to be treated (maybe only burried) there.
The demonstrators tried by every means to stop, or at least slow down, the highly dangerous train. Joseph couldn’t explicitly tell us what he thought about these actions, and however, asked the class this simple question : «Do you thing that trying to delay the train is a good solution ? Or only a dangerous action ?»

There was a rough debate about it. Some persons said it was worth trying, at least to attract the world’s attention on the events. Others thought there was too much risks approaching that train, and what if they accidentally (or on purpose) derailled the train ? The consequences would have lasted for thousands of years, as Tchernobyl did.
It was interesting pointing out that the protests were maybe deeper that what we thought. Indeed, there was certainly a will to explain that the nuclear power isn’t the solution, because even if it provides the energetic autonomy to plenty of countries, its wastes are a poison for the nature and their damages are permanent if not treated really cautiously.

I am in the same situation as Joesph is. It is difficult for me to coin a point of view. I see myself as a defendor of the planet (who doesn’t ?) but the nuclear power is still necessary to produce energy, since the «green» powers aren’t developed enough to provide the whole quantity we need.
Moreover, compared to its production, this energy doesn’t create too much waste.
But in the meantime, I remember the pictures of the Ukrainian children, born near Tchernobyl a few years after the explosion of the nuclear power station.
Concerning the means of protests, I think the opinion needs to be shocked in our society. A «buzz» has to be created if you want to make the opinion debate about what you did. The petitions are more democratic than «attacking» a train but they are much more useless, aren’t they ?
I also think that it is no accident that these events happened in Germany. Their environmental conscience is extremely developped, and maybe we should learn from them. Yet, I have to admit that the activists around the train weren’t all German !

To conclude, I think something had to be done about this «nuclear train», but I’m afraid that even that kind of protestation, rather violent, is as useless as a petition or a website.