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>Date: 14/03/2011 15:27
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>Subj: Re: Japan, Nuclear and Green? What say we?
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>Alastair,
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>Thanks for your clear framing of the Japan disaster within our
fields of concern. I guess those who can make the York event on Friday
will be exploring some of the implications there. It is still a
disaster in progress and we may yet see additional earthquakes both
in Japan and in the region before the Year or even the week is out.
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>What we need to draw from this are lessons in resiliance and in co-
operation. We have multiple systems failures and even in an extremely
well prepared country like Japan, such earth sponsored geo-re-
engineering events are overwhelming. The folly of building industrial,
nuclear, petrochemical plants in the midst of urban populations is one
for the urban geographers to meditate on.
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>International offers of aid have been swift in coming but I think the
whole ring of fire region has cause to pause here. As the ice caps melt
we know the loss of the huge weight will impact of the associated plate
techtonics in unpredictable ways. Can Asean agree to Tsunami -proof
the South? One can only imagine what would happen if there was a major
discontinuity across many states all at the same time. Carbon taxes to
pay for future resiliance against such events may be one way to go....
but the new nuclear lobby as a technical fix for climate change will
find it less easy tosoft soap the public. Japan with its highly
sophisticated workforce could become one of our greatest allies after
this in finding new solutions to the challenges of efficient disaster
management......
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>Steve
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>Sent: 14 March 2011 14:59
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>Subject: Japan, Nuclear and Green? What say we?
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>Folks …
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>I imagine we’re all a bit stunned by the enormity of the triple
disaster that’s hit Japan – earthquake, tsunami and nuclear (and keep
an eye on a fourth, the economic ballgame).
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>How is this going to affect the social psychological tectonic plates
re. climate change and the human predicament that have been discussed
on this forum recently?
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>I note this from Reuters just now - http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/14/us-nuclear-japan-industry-idUSTRE72D3T620110314
- and have the question to myself, “If I was asked where Japan leaves
the futures scenario ballgame, what would I reply?”
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>Frankly, I’m still not very sure. Still taking it in, and watching to
see what really unfolds. But it’s like all our worst nightmares have
materialised, and we can all say “I told you so” about issues like
nuclear risk, and high population density on low lying land … but given
the depth to which we’re hooked in to the way the world has become –
the product of population and consumption - do we really have answers
that add up?
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>Inasmuch as we may not, or that our answers are so deeply challenging
as to be socially and politically unpalatable, what is our best course
of action? How best, each in our own ways, can we use what is happening
to help steer a wise way forward for humankind?
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>Answers on a postcard …
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>Alastair.
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