Hi all,
I dont know who is still in this group, but some of you may have followed
the link to Green Audit that George gave in his recent article on Chris Busby
and his controversial Fukushima campaign. If you did, you will
see that I was a co-founder of Green Audit way back in 1992, and that I left in
1995. I left not because of any disagreement, but because of moving away and
into a new occupation.
Its a shame that Green Audit has been kept going just by Chris
Busby and a few of his acolytes, and that its still dominated by his obsession
on the danger of low level radiation and conspiracy theories to cover it up.
What was an interesting and plausible theory back in the early 90s has not stood
up to scrutiny and people should learn to move on.
In short, I agree with George that this bogus science and scaremongering do
great damage to the Green movement. There is much that brilliant independant
scientists like Chris Busby should be doing. Science should not be about making
a reputation for oneself, but finding the truth. The search for truth leads down
many blind alleys, but we should be able to learn and re-orientate on the
way.
The lesson that I have learnt from this is the power of team work, and the
danger of any one person becoming too dominant in an organisation. There is work
to do for anyone with an interest and knowledge of what is going on in the
world. All you need are organisational and communications skills plus some basic
education, with the commitment and determination to see things through. You
also need the humility to accept when you are wrong, and to see that when you
are in a hole its time to stop digging.
As human beings, we are programmed to work in teams where the whole is much
more than the sum of the parts. There is much that Green Audit could be
doing, and it starts on the doorstep. Chris Busby seems to have failed to
understand this.Its ironic that George is a near neighbour of his, as are many
other experienced and capable campaigners, with whom neither George nor Chris
appear to have any meaningful contact with.
Patrick