Exaggerated: Uranium vs. Rainforest

We live in interesting times!
This is said to be an old chinese curse, and the amount of tough decisions I had to make in my first days is overwhelming. It is crazy I tell you.

Facts: Nucular Inc., the research and discovery branch of Nukes4U, has discovered what is believed a major uranium deposit in the south west Saffra rainforest region.

Nukes4U, if you can imagine and I take the liberty to disclose here, of course is running wild. They are spinning at 175rpm around themselves and sound like they just declared World War IV -and won. Of course, to exploit this we just need to bulldoze half of Saffra, including the lush waterfalls near Sandia.

It's just trees you may say.

I have no problem bulldozing down a few trees if it builds you a better future. Once we have enough money, we can plant all trees we like, right?

But the truth is, once the trees are gone, the forest won't come back. A small opening will be closed in a few years, but large scale deforestation leaves us with stones and dust. Rainforest is a fragile ecosystem that depends on the presence of multiple contributing factors to remain stable. The rich, wild and overgrowing appearance is quickly turned into an arid and scarce landscape once the trees are gone. Mankind still doesn't have the skill to create a place like Sandia falls.

And there is the uranium. In a time of unstable energy supplies, when some desperate countries try to acquire nuclear weapons on the black market, just to disassemble them and feed their homegrown power stations, creating a hazard for the entire region (yes, I mean you, you who knows I mean you), it is a tempting source of income. Income that can make our lives better.
Also, Uranium drives technology, the civil branch of Nukes4U, AtomicWallplugs Inc., has always been and continues to be a deciding factor in development of new technologies, and may one day lead us to the realization of mankinds old dream of a man-made sun: clean, environment-friendly, safe and simple fission reactors.

So what to do? We work closely with Nukes4U, to make sure they enforce high security standards on nuclear energy rich material. We don't sell nukes, but we sell protection. We don't sell uranium, but we sell energy. We don't want to be a country held in poverty by rich supplies of raw materials.

So here is the deal we struck: modereate, controlled mining and deforestation, with a maximum of 10% increase in production levels. Further deforestation will be allowed only if independent experts confirm that the demined area is in a state of ecological health, and the rainforest will recover.

This will also help preserve the resources for future generations, We will ensure a steady stream of income, instead of making a big buck now for some private corporation promising to create jobs that they are only too happy to outsource to the sweatshops of the Kingdom of Immutability.

This comes as an acceptable compromise also for the the many hard working people in the tourism industry that make the Saffra region a beautiful place to stay. It will not be easy to balance the influx of new workers and processing industry into that region with the demands of "preservation for recreation", but I am confident we can handle it.

Now, maybe you are still not happy. If you are a greedy corporate bugger: I am making sure here your grandson still has a possibility to do business, so he doesn't have to sell himself to the KoI temp time legion after your son spent all your money on prostitutes, so give me some credit here.
Or you might be one of the few people that dislike anything involving "atoms". Basic knowledge of our book of statistics tells me you are more likely to hold a degree in comparative philantropy, than in nuclear physics, and that you have an unexplainable but significantly increased demand for cheap shears, compared to the average Tivertonian.

Remember that shears you bought lately - "Made in KoI" shyly printed in tiny letters on an almost inaccessible nudge in the plastic cover. They wouldn't do that if we wouldn't have enacted a law that requires that. But I don't want to talk about buying cheap from foreign countries, I want to talk about that plastic cover. That was so hard to open. Exactly. You know how long it takes to compose? I don't, but it will last as long as some innocent uranium for sure. And with its sharp edges, it is at least as dangerous as some radiating waste. So there. The self confidence hotline is 555-1234-I-FEEL-USELESS. 24hours a day, sponsored by your compassionate leader.