Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke, 87, called on his country to embrace the business of nuclear waste storage as a means of helping the country's economy and fighting global warming.
Hawke said global warming had the capacity to wreak “total destruction,” on the planet. Touting nuclear waste storage as a sure-bet economically, he said nuclear power “would be an essential part of the attack that must be made on this grievously dangerous, creeping global warming.”
He said, essentially, that desperate times called for desperate measures, alluding to the nuclear power option on the scale required to combat global warming “quite radical.” He also said that he was sure other countries would pay handsomely for the service of nuclear waste storage, calling the country the best geological option for a long-term storage solution.
“We're going to have to be prepared to think about changes that are quite radical,” he said.
Hawke delivered his speech in an unlikely venue for the topic, making his remarks at the Woodford Folk Festival, an annual music festival on the northeastern coast, about 45 miles north of Brisbane.
Some of the festival goers shouted, “No, thank you,” to the former prime minister's remarks, the Sunshine Coast News reported.
Hawke not only made a speech, but in an appearance the previous evening, he sang “Waltzing Matilda” for the crowd.
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