Fate of Japan and the Whole World Depends on No. 4 Reactor

[Peace Patriot]

19. Thank you, Madhound! 70 million curies, not over 70 years, but in weeks!

Anyone who could minimize such a catastrophe--even if it were limited to Japan--is a first class jerk.

One weather cycle.

All over the northern hemisphere.

In weeks.

Fire has been the danger to the rest of us all along--fire, of course, which spews deadly radiation into the atmosphere, and hydrogen or any other kind of explosion. The Japanese are the most at risk, even without fires and explosions. To minimize their danger from the fuel rods in Reactor 4 and nearby fuel rods, and from the initial meltdowns, is extremely xenophobic if not racist. To minimize what fires (or explosions) will do to the northern hemisphere is mindbogglingly stupid and typical of the "clever" profiteers of the nuclear industry.

This is madness. We are being led by madmen to the end of most life on earth--in an era in which we could have been celebrating peace and prosperity for all; in an era of the most astonishing scientific advances in history, in every field from astronomy to genetics, from the cosmos to the quark; in the first era in human history in which we have all seen the earth from the moon, and, for the first time in human history, can see with our own eyes that there are no borders on earth, and that we are "one people" all over the earth.

It is an era in which infinite, free energy is within our grasp; an era in which a vast extension of human life, and even immortality, is within our grasp; an era in which contact with other civilizations in our galaxy has become probable, in which we have realized that life is likely to have developed elsewhere, in many places, among the hundreds of millions of galaxies that we now realize are there; it is an era in which we have landed exploration machines on Mars and sent them out of the Solar System. It is an era of staggeringly powerful computer and communications technology. And it is an era in which innovators, from "first world" organic farmers to "third world" traditional and Indigenous farmers and other lovers of the plant world and respecters of its diversity and resilience, are creating sustainable agriculture on their own, giving us all the opportunity to reform the world food supply.

It is a wondrous era--that could all come to a swift and horrible end, by our own hands!

Yet our leaders, at least here in the U.S., refuse to acknowledge the catastrophic danger of nuclear power and that other danger--global warming (not only catastrophic warming--melting ice caps, extreme weather, flooding of islands and coasts--but also the catastrophic impacts on other, already severely stressed and depleted species and on the entire ecology of the planet).

If the human race survives to write a history of this era--or if someone else writes it--what they will be struck by is our unbelievable STUPIDITY resulting from the "corporatization" of our governments. We did this to ourselves--we committed suicide--for the profit of the few!