SANTA FE – Laboratory nemesis Los Alamos Study Group opened a new series of public meetings this week with breakfast seminars at churches in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Meeting at the United Church in Santa Fe, the group’s executive director Greg Mello said Thursday morning that the convergence of environmental, political and economic risks demands an extraordinary response.The theme of the seminars, which are planned weekly through the rest of the fall and winter, is “Dimensions of the Global Crisis: Responses and Renewal.”“Of course, we will emphasize nuclear policy, New Mexico, and we ourselves as actors and participants,” said Mello to a small group of people.The first week’s topic was, “Los Alamos in Crisis – the Decline and Fall of a Nuclear Weapons Laboratory.”“We are living in a catastrophe involving the environment of our planet,” he said. “This is a very unique and troubling historic moment that has possibilities of social, political and moral renewal.”Within the larger picture of global warming and widening wars over scarce resources and the local economic crisis involving the nuclear laboratories, he said, “We are in an emergency.
If you currently subscribe or have subscribed in the past to the Los Alamos Monitor, then simply find your account number on your mailing label and enter it below.
Click the question mark below to see where your account ID appears on your mailing label.
If you are new to the award winning Los Alamos Monitor and wish to get a subscription or simply gain access to our online content then please enter your ZIP code below and continue to setup your account.
| ZIP Code: | |