The first thought that came into my mind when I started watching the film ”Story of stuff” was that it were just another tearful film that makes "the stupid Americans” to see that their perfect world is falling apart (no offence). Annie Leonard keeps talking and I keep listening and she really gets my attention. Then I think a little longer and realise that some of us, living in our unconsciousness, might also needs a wake up call. I mean our use of nuclear energy. I know this subject is very sensitive for many people and especially for some of the people that I study with (we avoid that conversation) but I think Annie has a good point in her film. Today almost 40% of our electric power is generated by nuclear energy. Clean and quiet, that’s what many of us feel about that. That’s just a little part of a dirty truth that makes many people keep their eyes shut.
The nuclear fuel is created in poor countries for example Namibia, the Czech Republic and Ukraine. The winning creates a nuclear waste which ends up in the surrounding nature, which leads to water and nature pollution. The inhabitants is exploit as cheep labour and they suffer and get disease. Just like Annie declares. Also, there's always two sides of the coin.
