Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (http://www.pik-potsdam.de/institute/director/cv)has warned us about the seriousness of climate change, and told us to re-examine our culture or way of living, and make a revolutionary turnabout for the better of all. I agree with him that this is probably the most challenging task humans have ever had. Unless we started to change our materialistic life style, and our culture of increasing individualism and consumerism, life on earth would face annihilation within the next 100 years or even sooner.
The Fukushima disaster is not unpredictable. Tragically, it could have been preventable and avoidable. Industrialists and capitalists have wielded power with politicians, and together they ignored the risks, and sacrificed long-term disastrous consequences for short-term monetary gain, only to protect their own special interest groups. The Japanese people have never wanted to risk their lives for such nuclear power plants.
There is nothing new. In fact, crimes like that have happened again and again for centuries, ever since the Industrial Revolution! Stop stealing life from our children and grandchildren, future inhabitants on planet earth!
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