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15.July 2010 - 22:41

Little green men

Not much is needed to create a fuss in the media during the Dog Days.

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a blog on this site, concerning the most common counter-arguments against nuclear power. Aside from being topical, this subject is also personal to me: it is easy to analyse the counter-arguments against this form of energy, as they have also been mine in the past. Therefore, all I had to do was rummage around in my memory a bit and the article practically wrote itself.

A couple of my party colleagues came across my blog and together they called me in Brussels to thank me for the posting. First, a Finnish MP, also an acquaintance of mine, was on the phone but soon handed it over to the other person, who asked my permission to cite my writing as such in parliament  “Of course,” I encouraged my co-ideologist. “Please, just go ahead and freely cite whatever you want. It is all there in my blog on the site.”

Indeed, my MP comrade really took advantage of all of the bits and pieces that were there; the text was cited quite to its fullest possible extent. Of course, I understood that it is not a habit to unveil the sources of information from the speaker’s stand – the vigour of the speech’s rhetoric may suffer.

However, I did not foresee how obstinate the attitude towards one’s competence is, especially in the circles of the Greens. Within the social media, one Green MP pondered the similarities of the messages and, right away, the other congenial spirits began to take guesses. I was amused as I read the discussion of these gentlemen: “Only one thing is unclear: is this written by the communication team of TVO or of Fennovoima,” wrote one green male politician on Facebook. “It’s almost too fluent to be written by the latter hero,” said the other man, referring to me. The third man asked: “Could my friend from the Finnish Energy Industries be such a talented writer as this; the one who could not watch the voting from behind the long line.” The first man went on: “The job of the communication people in those companies is just this. Besides serving food and drinks to the right people.” The fourth man was wondering if I really had come up with this, using my own grey matter.

Honestly, with my own brain, my dear little green chauvinists. How about adjusting your attitude a little? You see, ovaries are not such a hindrance, as you seem to think. You may have found a talented writer in here too, even the slightly too fluent one. Would you believe it that one may have a teeny-weeny idea in one’s own pretty little head, without anybody’s help and without bribery? If that is possible for you, it could also be possible for others. Even in matters of energy politics.

Or could the presented point of view in energy matters be all wrong, after all; and when the pertinent arguments are all used, will the impertinent ones be taken up and used?

P.S. With pleasure, I would challenge – let’s say – Jukka Relander to a public debate on energy politics. That would be most stimulating.

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