A Hot Topic

The trolley problem.  Hiding Jews in the attic.  Do the ends justify the means?  These age old philosophical quandary’s are about to get a new member of their family, namely,

Is it ethical to use electricity from a power plant that is powered by burning human bodies? 

A recent World Health Organization investigation revealed that China, who has been substantially increasing it’s coal fired power plants over the past decade, hasn’t been entirely truthful on what they were presenting to the public as the fuel for most of those plants. 

“It’s truly staggering, I can’t believe that I would ever have to investigate something like this.” 

Jarn Bjornallson, is a Safety and Ethics investigator for the World Health Organization and is on the board of the International Council for Human Rights.  He says, after an anonymous tip last year, he opened an investigation into the Chinese power plants and what he found was horrifying. 

“They are heating the turbines for power by cremating human bodies.  They say they are only using people who died of old age in government nursing homes, and who had no family members to bury them, so they would otherwise be cremated and buried by the state anyway, and this way, they may be of more service to their country even after they have passed.  The worst part is that our investigations revealed that India, Turkey, and even the UK have been gladly purchasing this cheap electricity, and we now know that they knew how it was made, and also that they have no plans to stop.” 

“I know it’s a bit of a morally grey area,” says British Minister of Energy, Charles Penworth, “but it really is so cheap, you’d have to be a daft and dead idiot to not take that deal.” 

Chinese Deputy Secretary of Coal Plants, Zhao Pow, confirmed with BCM, that every Chinese citizen who is cremated at one of the state sponsored facilities of hominid energy production, receives an ending with dignity and receives a niche engraving on the side of the cooling tower, all for free and at the cost of the state.  No one could ask for more.