Sunday, January 15, 2017

Fukushima Daiichi: Japan's Worst "Pollution Crisis"


Recently, one of Japan's top environmentalists offered insight into the scale of the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis:
Yutaka Shiokura. December 30, 2016, Postwar democracy changed ‘pollution pioneer’. The Asahi Shimbun, http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201612300004.html
Miyamoto, now 86, has been keeping a watchful eye on Japanese pollution over the decades and the civil movements that try to combat it... 
"We need to accept Fukushima’s nuclear incident as our biggest pollution crisis ever in postwar Japan and push for environmental democracy further. That is our challenge,” said Miyamoto.

I would agree with that assessment and argue that Fukushima represents one of the top, discrete environmental threats in the world.

Our failure to prevent ongoing contamination of the ocean and the atmosphere at Fukushima bodes very poorly when one considers the scope and severity of the human-engineered disasters we have wrought on Earth.

Fukushima Daiichi:

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1 comment:

  1. Ice Age 2050s certainty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTI3GlYYHUs

    I believe this video to be worth watching and considering. As we know all science depends on induction. That makes scientific predictions at best probable to some extent. The author does not talk about the sun's long rotation about the galaxy center; therefore, he is guessing that that is not a major factor in the onset of ice ages or their duration--something I think may be the case. So we might in fact have a series of little ice ages of which the Maunder Minimum was the first and not a very lengthy ice age. Still the presentation is very interesting and sheds light on global warming as an idea. Also we might want to keep in mind that before either radiation or ice age destroys us a large sky rock may do the job.

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