Physicians For Social Responsibility

PFSR is an organization made up of doctors that are collectively bent on healing society and the world at large through publishing periodicals and stating their case to Congress. Their goals involve fixing our unequal health care system, ending domestic violence, Green jobs, environmentally-​friendly farming, and most of all, working towards the abolishment of nuclear power.
In 1961, a group of futurist doctors saw Japan in 2011 as well as all the other horrors that lied and still lie ahead for us if we continued to use such an unstable, dangerous energy source. Today they are 50,000 members strong, but it’s not enough.
Nuclear power is expensive, it is volatile, it wreaks havoc even when it is not intentionally used for harm. It burns flesh, contaminates all it comes into contact with, intimidates, spreads mistrust, and squanders public funds in an imperial fervor. With nature-​driven sources of energy such as the sun, wind, and water at our disposal, nuclear power is unnecessary as well as aberrant. Those who opportunistically support the perpetuation of nuclear power are both Democrat and Republican.
For me, nuclear war is a very personal fear that dates back to my childhood. I saw «The Day After» on television along with millions of others and was haunted further by HBO’s Nostradamus documentary in which Orson Welles gravely recounted a prediction that holocaust was imminent, our costly Star Wars program being unable to save the United States. To this day, I still have the occasional nightmare regarding this ominous threat.
Fortunately, the 4^th Superman film came out later in the same decade. Ignoring the unfair critical derision it received, I was comforted to know that I wasn’t the only one who wanted to toss every single nuclear warhead into the heart of a burning star.
Be Superman. Reverse Oppenheimer’s famously dire quote and become Life in lieu of Death, Support PFSR and support sanity, the well-​being of our planet, and all who dwell on it, particularly the people of Japan who need all the prayers and donations one can muster.