Fighting to prevent the creation of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository has thus far prevented what will one day be one of the most colossal natural disasters which has ever befallen humanity.
Yucca Mountain is being turned into a facility to hold all the nuclear waste Amerika produces. All of it. Every gram. Except it was chosen as a location because some very rich men got even richer, not because it made any sense, and sits on tectonically active ground, in one of the most seismically-active states in Amerika.
Furthermore, the location is geologically unstable, and while the science says it will be okay for the 10,000 years it’s intended to last, the nuclear waste will remain unimaginably dangerous for millions of years. One day, if the Yucca Mountain facility is allowed to open, our descendants will experience a major seismic event which will throw open the gates of Hell – and the gods help them if they are no longer a technological civilization capable of dealing with it.
Thus far, however, the hard work of a lot of environmentalists, First Nations activists, and other sane individuals have prevented this major natural disaster in the making. Sadly, among a lot of other Obama-begun projects Ttump shit-canned when he took office, the Deep Borehole project (which is the only alternative to Yucca Mountain) was also unceremoniously axed.