What happened in Japan can happen to all of us. With no fault of their own they were hit with an earthquake of magnitude 9 in the Richter Scale.
It is eery to think that Japan was the first country to experience the destructive power of nuclear energy, and now they are threatened again with radioactive materials.
There are several threats humans are confronted with: meteorites, gamma ray bursts, solar wind storms, and on, and on.
I believe in the intelligence and resilience of the Japanese people. Maybe it sounds completely awkward, but the Haitian people have shown great resilience after an Earthquake hit their land. Two extremes in how they responded, one highly technological, and the other almost as hunter-gatherers; but all human beings are highly skilled in survival; if we weren't like this, we would not be here now.
All my heart to my brothers and sisters of Japan, and Haiti.
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Dear Hann,
down here in Chilpancingo, we have even more solar radiation. That will happen.
Having said that I take seriously Jim Lovelock's opinion:
"A television interviewer once asked me, 'But what about nuclear waste? Will it not poison the whole biosphere and persist for millions of years?' I knew this to be a nightmare fantasy wholly without substance in the real world... One of the striking things about places heavily contaminated by radioactive nuclides is the richness of their wildlife. This is true of the land around Chernobyl, the bomb test sites of the Pacific, and areas near the United States' Savannah River nuclear weapons plant of the Second World War. Wild plants and animals do not perceive radiation as dangerous, and any slight reduction it may cause in their lifespans is far less a hazard than is the presence of people and their pets... I find it sad, but all too human, that there are vast bureaucracies concerned about nuclear waste, huge organisations devoted to decommissioning power stations, but nothing comparable to deal with that truly malign waste, carbon dioxide."
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lovelock
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