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Yeah, and we were told the Chernobyl cloud never crossed the French border. Until years later, oh wait, it did. Governments everywhere have a long track recor
by sametmax 7y ago
Yeah, and we were told the Chernobyl cloud never crossed the French border.
Until years later, oh wait, it did.
Governments everywhere have a long track record at taking action to mitigate their responsibility, not to actually take care of the population. When your life is on the line, it's sane to doubt.
- roenxi 7y agoThis is conspiracy theory logic. If you assume the government is enacting a bad faith cover up, literally any position of ignorance can be justified. If there was evidence that radiation from Chernobyl was causing a problem at a scale beyond what you'd expect of any large industrial project someone would have spotted it by now. Instead the numbers seem to be being revised downwards and the damage turns out to be mitigatable as more evidence comes in.
- sametmax 7y agoConspiracy assume malevolence. I don't. I assume incompetence and selfishness. Also I've now read enough history to have a good overview on how people in charge deal with crisis. They are human, they have an agenda, and most of the time, the agenda is not the in favor of the ones they are ruling.
- hokkos 7y agoNo you were no told that, you are just repeating mindlessly a false information. All the press and people that put that into the mouth of Dr Pellerin lost their trial in libel. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cons%C3%A9quences_de_la_catastrophe_de_Tchernobyl_en_France#Controverses_sur_le_nuage_radioactif https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cons%C3%A9quences_de_la_catast...