Once burned? What about twice? In 1945, hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese suffered through the only atomic bombings in history - and yet, in the decades that followed those in power went on to construct the most dangerous, least controllable source of power on an earthquake-ridden nation in constant danger of earthquakes and tsunamis.
So now, the people of Japan are paying a terrible price for the decisions of a few.
The media, both in the US and in Japan, have referred to the 'worst disaster since WWII' without ever using the words Hiroshima or Nagasaki. No one seems willing to make the connection, even though the nexus is extremely relevant and distressing.
This morning, Jesse Richard, founder of TvNewsLIES.org posted an editorial entitled The Japanese Learned Nothing From Hiroshima and Nagasaki . It begins:
You would think that the only nation to actually learn first hand about the potential horrors of nuclear power would be insightful enough to realize that nuclear energy and life on Earth cannot coincide. You would think that the nation that suffered not once, but twice from the direct results of nuclear energy unleashed by human technology, would be first to understand the risks associated with this unnecessary evil.
Of course money trumps logic, so the profits made by the nuclear energy industry speak louder than the combined experience of the victims of the premier example of what happens when a society's technology advances faster than it's intelligence.
For the price of building a nuclear power plant, supplying it with expensive nuclear fuel and disposing of its eternally dangerous waste, we could probably put solar panels on every home and building on the grid. Maybe then, smaller traditional power plants would be sufficient to fill the rest of any region's power requirements. Maybe then, even wind power would provide enough energy to supplement the electrical requirements for average cities.
Read it all here:
http://tvnewslies.org/...
The devastation is far from over. Alternet.org writes of a possible cover-up, similar to that at Chernobyl, to minimize the danger to the people of Japan, and perhaps the world. The pundits will chime in and chalk it up to an unfortunate anomaly that will not happen again. How comforting is it that the nuclear plant near San Diego, California will withstand a 7.0 earthquake.... one that would be ONE HUNDRED times less powerful than the one that just hit Japan?
Sleep well.... all is in good hands.