Germar Rudolf, Resistance Is Obligatory (2012; PDF-Datei

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
The next criterion demands that the resistance does not set as absolute
private opinions. But that is exactly what the peace movement and
the movement opposed to nuclear energy have done. Their private view
was that the deployment of additional nuclear weapons would lead to a
nuclear war in Europe and thus via the annihilation of mankind inevitably
also to the removal of the liberal democratic order in Germany. The
argumentation regarding nuclear energy was similar, in that it was insinuated
that over longer periods of time it would have a similar effect
as a nuclear war due to radioactive contamination.
Both considerations have proved to be wrong or even disastrous. After
all, one can argue from today’s point of view that NATO’s additional
armament efforts contributed decisively to beat the USSR in this
arms race, and thus to end the Cold War, i.e., the threat of a nuclear
holocaust. And it is similar with abandoning the further expansion of
nuclear energy as a result of the anti-nuclear protest, because as a result
of this the whole world has massively increased the use of fossil energy
carriers – with terrible consequences. In China alone some 5,000 men
die every year in coal mines. Worldwide the death toll of coal mining
may be as high as 10,000, and this does not even include fatalities due
to acute ailments of the respiratory system resulting from coal smog in
the conurbations of developing and emerging countries. Hence, in order
to keep up with the annual death toll of fossil fuels, we could afford at
least one Chernobyl every second year, the nuclear reactor accident of
which has resulted in a total of some 20,000 human fatalities according
to current pessimistic estimations. That is far from being the end of the
bad news. According to the most recent research results of paleontologist
and geologists, which were published in the October 2006 issue of
the U.S.-American science magazine Scientific American, one is now
on the scent of the reasons why mass extinction events have repeatedly
occurred during earth’s history. 232 There is general agreement that the
impact of a meteorite in the Caribbean is responsible for the extinction
of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. Yet for the other five similar
mass extinction events no such cosmic collisions could be determined.
More recent research suggests, however, that these episodes of
mass extinction of species were the results of massive tectonic activities.
The volcanism connected with these released huge amounts of carbon
dioxide, which in turn kicked off an intense greenhouse effect. The
232 Peter D. Ward, “Impact from the Deep,” Scientific American, 10/2006, pp. 42-49.
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