tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015906686514145823.post8209975706740775688..comments2023-09-07T08:53:57.262-07:00Comments on THE TIGER CAGE: "I'M SURE THEY'LL THINK OF SOMETHING"!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13156080225918567393noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015906686514145823.post-54874332396369738432015-06-24T18:44:28.780-07:002015-06-24T18:44:28.780-07:00Good point on education. Of course this was once a...Good point on education. Of course this was once again greedy people privatizing education curriculum to make money for themselves at the great expense of the public good. Greedy individuals have gotten away with this in the prison system and military. <br /><br />"They will think of something." Well said, I have heard that so many times. I translate that to mean "I see Rome burning and I don't want to talk about it." <br /><br />Climate change is responsible for killing our oceans by raising the temperature and creating the largest ever toxic algae blooms. Fukushima nuclear waste is also if not more so responsible for the killing of our oceans. <br /><br />Here is an article where a Fukishima employee was interviewed regarding ongoing radioactive water being released into the Pacific Ocean: <br /><br />After The Media Has Gone: Fukushima, Suicide and the Legacy of 3.11<br />The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol 10, Issue 19, No. 2<br />By Makiko Segawa<br />May 7, 2012<br /><br /><br /> Continuous Dumping of Contaminated Water<br /><br /> Possibly angry at this situation, on April 21st a 62-year-old nuclear worker broke the silence on the continued leakage of contaminated water from Fukushima Daiichi. Speaking to me, he requested anonymity for fear of losing his job. He supervises a construction site aimed at building a new facility to extract radioactive materials such as cesium and strontium from the contaminated water used to cool the plant’s crippled reactors. He revealed that the current facility removes only cesium and that other radioactive materials such as strontium cannot be cleaned up.<br /><br /> He expressed astonishment at the scale of the cleanup operation. “You know how much contaminated water is stored at the Fukushima Daiichi site? It is 200,000 tons. It is an enormous amount!” “In reality,” he said, raising his voice, “it is impossible to store that much water on site. So, it is obvious that some of the contaminated water has been leaked into the ocean.”<br /><br /> “Everyone there knows that the amount of water is huge but does not speak about it. Anyone who works there understands that nothing can be done except to leak the water!” he stressed. “Everyone criticizes North Korea for its missiles. But what about Japanese morality? The contamination will spread all over the world, reaching to Kamchatka, Hawaii and the U.S. soon,” he added.<br /><br /> Toward the end of our conversation, he said, “You know, in Japan, there is ‘honne’ (honest feeling) and ‘tatemae’ (polite-face). “Our tatemae is that we are doing our utmost to stop the leakage of contamination, and our honnne is that we are dumping massive amounts of contaminated water into the ocean.” <br /><br />June, 2015, and millions of gallons per day are still being leaked into the ocean and we don't even know what is happening inside the reactors. This is just the continual spraying to keep the rods cooled. <br /><br />So our leaders focus on starting another world war instead of the environmental crisis. Well there is a lot of money in war. Maybe if we make carrying for our environment really profitable for the military manufactures, the prison privateers and the forest clear-cutters we could employ more people and do good in the world.<br /><br />~Heidi <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015906686514145823.post-16913555009106097542015-06-24T18:07:59.644-07:002015-06-24T18:07:59.644-07:00I would have to say the main problem is most peopl...I would have to say the main problem is most people don't study or ask questions regarding anything, just listen to what they want to hear and say "It has happened before, so no big deal"! "There is nothing I can do about it" I will be dead before **** happens, so why should I worry about it"<br />This apathy needs to be changedNorCalhttp://aol.comnoreply@blogger.com