Wednesday, April 26, 2006

April Anniversaries: Not Just Earth Day


(from news.bbc.co.uk)

Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl. Pripyat (pictured), once a city of almost 50,000 inhabitants, has sat abandoned since then. It took authorities several days to report the disaster and take measures to keep people safe. It has been years that scientists have been telling governments, the media and the public that our current levels of consumption are putting our entire planet at risk. Are our children to become painted shadows?

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