Japanese disaster
posted by Caelidh | March 16, 2011
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IcerocketI am really kind of amazed that there isn't a blog on top that mentions the Japanese crisis right now?
Here is a real life example of something hugely shifting.. it could be just another natural disaster.. or it could be the earth shifting .. will we see more of these kinds of events?
How will humanity respond?
Are we prepared ourselves for any kind of disaster? Both materially and mentally and spiritually?
THis is what everyone has been talking about.. yet no one here apparently is..
hmmmm
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Japan
— Mar 16, 2011
Hi Caelidh, I wrote about this from a particular perspective a few days ago already. It is something to be aware of on all levels.
http://www.evolver.net/user/landar/blog/japanese_earthquake_and_book_rev...
There's been more activity
— Mar 16, 2011
There's been more activity about the Japanese disaster in the NEWS section. I think the situation there is so massive and fluid it's hard to get a grasp on except in the news flashes that come out. Look through those posts, there is some interesting stuff in the comments there.
Japan's 9.0 is going to be a big turning point in the world, but right now it's hard to see beyond the human suffering, destruction, and nuclear nightmare ongoing.
The ability for our leaders to ignore the sustainability movement has been lost, since the BP disaster and now the Fukashima meltdown, we've got to plan for more alternatives, more decentralized energy production, and plan for cutting energy consumption.
6 Tektite Serpent
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"That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly" - Thomas Paine
"We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing" - Seneca
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— Mar 17, 2011
http://www.evolver.net/user/harbinger/blog/japan_lesson_humility_man_per...
The talking heads say "only" 4000 people died in Chernobyl, "only" 1 person died in connection to 3-mile Island, and no-one died yet at Fukashima - so that's safe?
This doesn't include all those that may die from skin cancer, thyroid cancer and other cancers from the fallout. Data I'm sure we will never hear. A good guess might be over 400,000 in Russia. Over 2 million world wide. Added to that will be genetic abnormalities of new borns in the exposed areas that willl be permanent and possibly carried on to future generations.
With each nuclear accident the back ground radiation increases for us all.
It is important that one know about "half life" when considering these problems.
For instance:
if you originally had 157 grams of carbon-14 and the half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years
Radiation also irradiates all things that it comes in contact with, so, the exposure threat grows as contaminate materials are moved around by wind and rain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_function
Nukes are REALLY bad shit. So bad in fact, no reactors should ever be consider safe.
My sarcasm may have not been
— Mar 17, 2011
My sarcasm may have not been blunt enough.
The media confuse and confabulate the numbers. I agree thousands more were probably affected (and are being affected) by these released, but also the other workers and bystanders in the whole chain of nuclear fuel processing.
And if you saw my next paragraph I go on to illustrate there is no way any solar or wind project could harm anywhere close to the conservative numbers mentioned.
6 Tektite Serpent
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"That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly" - Thomas Paine
"We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing" - Seneca
Tonight news stated
— Mar 17, 2011
the Japanese reactors contain MOX
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOX_fuel
MOX contain plutonium the most dangerous substance on Earth. The stuff of hydrogen bombs.
Its called a normalcy bias
— Mar 17, 2011
Six reactors are going to blow up. At least one already has, shooting radioactive steam 3,000 feet into the atmosphere in a small mushroom cloud, spent fuel rods flying everywhere and people are just calmly going about their day asking if anything is wrong, and should they do anything? No, not today and the radioactivity in the jet stream will miss us, of course. How silly we are to worry, the government and the weatherman says there is more radiation in a banana sitting on your kitchen counter than any radiation in the jet stream that is coming right at us from Japan.
Its called a normalcy bias and it is worse than burying your head in the sand like an ostrich. At least if you can get the ostrich to pull its head out of the sand and get it to see the danger, it will act in its own best interest and protect itself. With a normalcy bias, its like being in a Monty Python routine where no matter how odd or absurd the situation is, everyone outdoes each other trying to see it as normal.
I suggest people monitor the radiation levels at some of the private companies with websites on the Internet, like radiationetwork.com:
