Today I received an email from an investment advisory organization, extolling investment in the Australian Government’s “Future Fund”. I have replied with the following information, which other people who look forward to a peaceful world for their families may find of interest:

It is a fact that the so-called Future Fund invests in Nuclear Weapons. This is more than disturbing. It is a crime against humanity and against our future. Investment in the Future Fund would be better delayed until the administration of the Future Fund have ceased their promotion of making money out of nuclear weapons.

Under President Obama the USA started upgrading their nuclear weapons, so that they will be smaller and more likely to be used. The other nuclear-armed countries then started to follow suit.

There are currently around 44 wars going on. Australian and US involvement in production and sale of weapons, as well as investment in nuclear weapons, is making it more and more likely that there will be a global catastrophe involving all countries.

Even countries not a target of nuclear weapons would suffer the effects of any nuclear war. The effects are not limited to country boundaries. For example, the radioactive dust from nuclear tests from the 1950s is still falling onto the planet. The children born in the 1960s and 1970s have seven times more radioactive products in their bones than their baby boomer parents. With the huge amounts of radioactive iodine, and other long lived radioactive products still pouring each day into the Pacific from the Fukushima nuclear melt down site, our grandchildren will have even higher amounts of radioactive products in their bodies. This will raise the incidence of illnesses and cancer deaths for many generations.

There is more in life than money. Now is the time for ethical investment. We Australians would benefit considerably in employment and national wealth if the current government invested in clean energy production for domestic use and for exports. Investment in renewables is now a source of wealth for many countries. Why not Australia?
Gillian Blair, Panmure, Vic. 3265