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The resiliency of the Japanese people is amazing; meanwhile across the Pacific the pundits continue to argue. Bill O'Reilly says we're over-reacting, Glenn Beck says it's the end of the World, while Lawrence O'Donnell guarantees that the world is not going to end :)
I must admit that the events unfolding in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, and other Middle Eastern countries, and now the natural disasters in Japan, is making me lose my sense of humour from all this tragedy.
Unfortunately, LD, FOX isn't underestimating the Japanese nuke fiasco. Read Monbiot's piece in today's Guardian or professor Spiegelhalter's op-ed at BBC's website. 80,000 people survived the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the 60-years following some 40,000 of them have passed on. Of that 40,000, 640 died of conditions associated with their exposure to those atomic bombs. And these were people who were bombed!
ReplyDeleteAs Monbiot, the leading environmental writer of our times, puts it, the real nuclear disaster is in China where the government, over-reacting to Fukushima has halted construction of nuclear power plants.
I'm so disappointed in progressives. We need to collectively grow a pair. Otherwise we may be in for a short and brutal century.
MoS, I think the damage is done. Switzerland has halted approval of any new nuclear facilities and few other countries are headed in the same direction. Of course given China’s population of 1.5 billion their need for energy is very high and it is going to have maximum impact.
ReplyDeleteAnti-nuclear lobby is quite powerful and I will not be surprised that they have the support/backing of the oil and coal companies.
News out of Japan is not good as situation is worsening by the hour and that gives a lot of fodder to anti-nuclear lobby. For nuclear energy news are grim all around.