It is now over two months since the beginning of the Fukushima disaster on March 11th. Rarely a day goes by that does not involve new revelations of the magnitude of the unfolding disaster but for most of the media and therefore most of the people, Fukushima is yesterday's news.
It is now 25 years since Chernobyl. The latest translation of Russian language reports suggest nearly one million deaths directly attributable to Chernobyl. The official number is less than one hundred.
I am sixty five years old and likely to die in the next twenty years. My concern is for my children and grandchildren and all the other people in the world who were hoping to live to a ripe old age, enjoying a reasonable, cancer-free life.
It is clear that the managers of TEPCO are incompetent yet the Japanese government has no immediate plan to nationalize the company or take over the direct management of the crisis. The failure to direct the world's most competent resources toward Fukushima will result in the world's most competent not living to enjoy their pensions.
Japan is in imminent danger. Asia is in imminent danger. The northern hemisphere is in imminent danger. There is no one who is not in imminent danger.
Are we going to wait until we seen a dramatic increase in birth defects before we take action? Are we going to wait until the Japanese healthcare system is overwhelmed?
This is a planet earth crisis happening before our eyes. This is worse than global warming. This is as bad as nuclear war.
The crisis in Japan is more important than the price of gas; more important than the unemployment problems; more important than the rocketing increases in the cost of living; more important than the Arab Spring; more important than the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan or Libya.
When are we going to see through the smoke and mirrors? Japan's problem is our problem.
The national debate needs to be about how we commit our finest resources to solving the Fukushima problems. This is a crisis which needs our attention in the "national interest"!
What is the point of being the most powerful and advanced nation in the world if we sit back and wait for everyone we know and love, to be poisoned?
The only possible explanation for the failure to act must be that Fukushima is the long sought-for answer to the population problem. The billionaires that invest their wealth in population control have been handed a solution that simply requires a failure to act. Most of them are old men anyway and they can afford to take precautions that are unavailable to us useless eaters.
God help us. We are going to let evil have its way without a fight. Perhaps we deserve nothing better?
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