DoomsdaysCW<p>[Thread] The next installment from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a> &#39;s book, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> </p><p>“The devastation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearColonialism</span></a>, which permanently destroys <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> communities throughout the world, is outright ignored by some of the most devout <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateJustice</span></a> advocates. They claim <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearEnergy</span></a> production is also a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenSolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GreenSolution</span></a> to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a>. More than 15,000 abandoned <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMines" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UraniumMines</span></a> are located within the so-called US, mostly in and around Indigenous communities, permanently poisoning <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredLands" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SacredLands</span></a> and waters with little to no action being taken to clean up their deadly toxic legacy. There are currently 93 operating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearReactors" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearReactors</span></a> in the so-called US that supply 20% of the country’s electricity. There are 60,000 tons of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HighlyRadioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HighlyRadioactive</span></a> spent waste store in concrete dams at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a> throughout the country with the waste increasing at a rate of 2,000 tons per year.</p><p>“In 1987 the ‘US’ Congress initiated a controversial project to transport and store almost all of the US’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ToxicWaste</span></a> at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a> located about 100 miles northwest of so-called <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LasVegas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LasVegas</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nevada</span></a>. Yucca Mountan has been held holy to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Paiute</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternShoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WesternShoshone</span></a> Nations since time immemorial. In January 2010 the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ObamaAdminstration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ObamaAdminstration</span></a> approved a $54 billion taxpayer loan in a guarantee program for new nuclear reactor construction, three times what Bush previously promised in 2005. In April 2022, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BidenAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BidenAdministration</span></a> government bailout to ‘rescue’ nuclear power plants at risk for closing. A <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Colonial</span></a> government representative stated, ‘US nuclear power contributes more than half of our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonFree" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CarbonFree</span></a> electricity, and President Biden is committed to keeping these plants active to reach our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CleanEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CleanEnergy</span></a> goals.’ </p><p>“They, along with Climate Justice activiists, cite nuclear energy as necessary to combat <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a>, all while ignoring the devastating percent impacts <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> have faced. There is nothing clean about energy produced from nuclear colonialism. From its weapons (including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DepletedUranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DepletedUranium</span></a>) to its <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mining</span></a> and its waste; Indigenous bodies, lands, and waters continue to be sacrificed to heat water with radioactive materials which creates steam that moves generators to change batteries made from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lithium</span></a> extracted from other Indigenous sacred lands so <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Teslas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Teslas</span></a> can mo you forward into a ‘just’ climate future.</p><p>“A green economy sustains and advances colonial progress, which means mitigated selective and ongoing destruction of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a>.”</p><p>Pages 139-140</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousAnarchy</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ecosystem</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HaulNo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoDAPL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoCopperMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoCopperMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoLithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoLithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CopperMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashng" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Greenwashng</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RestInPowerKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RestInPowerKleeBenally</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RIPKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RIPKleeBenally</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCanyonMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StopCanyonMine</span></a></p>