Forget terroir wine: with nuclear power, agriculture will cease to exist

We cannot think of “caressing' our vineyards and improving the land we work on to leave it more fertile and alive for future generations without taking a clear and decisive stand against the NUCLEAR threat, capable of nullifying IN AN INSTANT every effort we make.

There are supposedly wise men (or ignorant hominids?) putting the very existence of this tiny speck in the universe—Earth—at risk. They have no idea what it means to have produced the most devastating and deadly force of sub-nature (as Rudolf Steiner called nuclear energy, warning of its dangers), and yet they toy with it like foolish sorcerers, juggling an energy power they do not understand or know how to manage, endangering the future of all humanity. WE WHO LOVE THE EARTH MUST OPPOSE THEM.

A radioactive isotope leak is uncontrollable and kills both people and land. And then try to tell anyone that our precious wine comes from those lands. Any other energy source (which we also need) can cause local damage or negative effects, BUT IT CANNOT DESTROY IN AN UNPREDICTABLE AND SUDDEN WAY, LEAVING US DEFENSELESS AS ONLY NUCLEAR CAN.

Every reassuring charlatan claim about nuclear reactor safety has been disproven by a series of incidents over the past decades. The most notorious examples, among the few made public, happened everywhere: Three Mile Island, USA (1979); Chernobyl, Russia (1986); Fukushima, Japan (2011), showing that neither skill, technological development, nor ancient or modern wisdom matters. Nuclear power is unsafe, and today we do not know how to defend ourselves from its devastating force, its drift, or its waste. We do not even fully understand how a reactor works; it cannot be “turned off” like a forest fire by pouring water on it. What “burns” is a process, not a physical fire—it is a destructive negative force that mimics nature but is not natural, and we do not know how to contain or dispose of it responsibly. That alone should be reason enough for a wise human not to play with an uncontrollable force.

A catastrophic nuclear accident does not allow modern humans to defend themselves and survive: this is the reality of nuclear power. FROM A RADIOACTIVE LEAK THERE IS NO ESCAPE, NO MEDICINE OR VACCINE, NO PLACE IN THE WORLD TO TAKE REFUGE.

We cannot focus only on our vineyards and remain indifferent—other people’s decisions can erase our work, our lives, and those of future generations. WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO DEFEND THE EARTH WE LIVE ON, THE EARTH ON WHICH WE WANT TO PRODUCE CLEAN AND UNIQUE PRODUCTS, PRESERVING AND IMPROVING IT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.

EVERY VITICULTURIST, EVEN IF NOT BIODYNAMIC, has the duty to think of the future and not only of money in the present. Every biodynamic farmer has the obligation to envision a model of development that is not of high entropy.

BY VOTING YES IN THE NUCLEAR REFERENDUM ON JUNE 12-13, WE CAN SWITCH OFF A SHAMEFUL THREAT AND TURN ON HOPE FOR THE FUTURE.