Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 06, 2017

Maybe, Calvin shouldn’t watch so much news.

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Side note: Watterson started out as political cartoonist in Cincinnati before doing C&H.

Deregulation at work: letting corporations get away with murdering innocent people.

“I bet he’ll grow up to be an architect.”

This is why environmentalists need to be countering the RWNJ’s crack about “job-killing regulations” with the crack “people-killing lack of regulations.” But don’t look for that from the Dems-Please-Don’t-Say-Mean-Things-About-Us Party. No intestinal fortitude.

Hiding under the bed will not help so much, I fear!!

Cal’s sandbox in Love Canal.

Calvin forgot to mention the town was economically depressed. Not too many toxic waste dumps going into Palm Beach.

Even though it’s still on the subject of the death of a town, here’s something I find a little less unsettling than this. I think you’ll find it better.

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1985/11/27

Sadly, this has occurred far too often in our world. Grassy Narrows in Ontario comes to mind with vats of mercury having been dumped in a pit in the early ’70s causing mercury poisoning for residents down river of said dump site(s).

Amazing isn’t it? To produce something that is useful for maybe five years until it’s worn out or obsoleted produces by products toxic for centuries?

Ask the people of Crescent Oklahoma. See the movie “Silkwood”. More than 14 people have died of Cancer and LEUKEMIA.

When a child’s play goes too far…

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Isn’t funny how he knows what’s happening in this strip but doesn’t know what 3+4 is?

Come on, don’t be all Shakespearic, Calvin

What was the original publication date for this?

Ugh all the stuff people don’t understand about the cleanest and safest CURRENTLY-EFFICIENT energy technology we have… not to mention the fact that we have developed methods of complete utilization of induced-fission energy production. The issue has always been with proliferation, the need to make weapons to ensure M.A.D. in the case of a nuclear attack. That plus the few issues that we have had with nuclear which is due to unsafe operation rather than an issue with the technology itself. U.S. nuclear navy subs and aircraft carriers. 0 nuclear accidents in over 60 years of operation.

Recently the U.S. tested an anti-nuke defense system, Russia complains to international community saying “look at them consolidating their power, keeping themselves safe but nobody else.” All the while we continue to use harmful energy-production methods, and ignorant people cry for a move to renewable sources despite the fact our technology isn’t quite there yet. We’re trying to skip a vital stepping stone in energy production technology and the strain might have already killed us.

That’s why I would be feeling ill watching Calvin talk about that-which-doesn’t-need-to-be-wasted being dumped uselessly into a hole. Our planet, providing us with that which we need to progress towards harming it less and less, and we create more pins instead of cushions.

I wait for when the nuclear industry can get insured on its own. Right now the liability is so high they cannot. Govt has to insure them for any disaster or the cost would make it too expensive as in MORE high cost than it already is. It is very costly much more than solar. So it too is subsidized. Let us remove it since atomic energy is a mature means and doesn’t need any more money to help it unlike solar and wind, and geothermal and Deep Ocean Convection Currents do.

“Perfectly safe” they said….

From the mouths of babes? Although this is a bit disturbing.