They are causes of the contemporary attitude of the people in and around Temelin. There wasn't much money left in the small villages and many of them ceased to exist. The people in the countryside are also characteristically conservative and are not well informed. Their only source of information is TV and newspapers. In the countryside there are few cultural activities and very few opportunities for paying work.
Most work is found in local agriculture co-operatives or by commuting to a bigger city.
Because of their isolation there is a passivity and a slow ability to adopt to changes. Some of the positive things about these rural communities though, are their close relationship to nature and better friendships between neighbours. The local people who live around Temelin NPP can be divided into a few groups. The first group consists of those people who were very active in the first years of protest before the revolution and who tried to co-operate on stopping the building of Temelin. Within this first group it is necessary recognise the determined people who, in the frame of ecological initiatives or individually, continued to work directly against nuclear activities.