Nuclear Peace?

It is too early to tell but it looks promising that the world powers may finally have a means to craft nuclear peace with Iran. That is something to celebrate. The deed is not done. But the thinking has made a great breakthrough.

Why is this so important? For two reasons that pop to mind:

First, Iran has suffered long enough from economic sanctions imposed by the global community for acts committed in the name of their sovereignty and religion without regard to the sovereignty and religion of the rest of the world community. That is a stark fact. It has to be recognized to understand what has happened over the past 30 years.

Second, the global community – as diverse and divisive as it is – was able to keep a unified voice in dealing with Iran in this matter.

Of course there are other points to make. One would be the global community accepting the fact that nuclear power is important and vital for energy generation without water and fossil fuels heading into the future. For me this is a valuable given. Of course safer nuclear power generation needs to be invented, secured and implemented. Spent fuel rods will poison the planet forever if we don’t find a solution to using those fuel rods completely.

Another point would be this: in the land of oil, nuclear energy generation is vitally important. Oil and natural gas are finite. They will one day be extinct. Mankind needs to replace this energy source with another one. Hopefully the new one will be infinite, plentiful and not injurious to the planet’s health! Our physicists need to continue researching solutions. And the engineers, too! Get at it boys and girls. Our future depends on you.

Still another point: without the politics of oil world peace has a stunning chance to succeed. It is time we all get this point.

With nuclear peace and energy solutions I think the world community can finally sit down in clusters of knowledgeable people and discuss other big issues that lie before us:

• Religious freedom and getting along in a world of cultural diversity
• Clean drinking water supplies for the entire people of the world
• Clean and productive soils worldwide for the growth and sustenance of the world’s peoples
• Access to health services to enable all peoples to live out their potential
• Access to education and research for everyone able so that we can continue to live in sustainable peace.

So many barriers we have had to deal with. Each and every one of them have been manmade. Each was manageable. Each can be put behind us so that we can move forward in time, all of us together. No nation should be pre-eminent. No religion should be the ‘one and only’. No race shall outshine all others.

It is time to awaken to our potential and make it happen. Those of ill will and bad playing habits will need rehabilitation services. Any volunteers for that duty?

April 14, 2015