Radioactive Water Dumped Into Pacific and Not a Peep on Facebook
debragalant | April 4, 2011
Here’s the latest: Tokyo Electric is now dumping 11,500 tons of radioactive water from the doomed Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean. What does that mean? I’m sure, as with every other radioactive release since this disaster began, we’ll be reassured over and over, by scientists and government spokesmen, that levels of actual radioactivity are low. And the ocean is big.
Where’s the outrage? One year ago, Facebook was filled with clenched fists after the BP oil spill off the Gulf Coast. Pictures of oil-covered birds were everywhere. Will it take pictures of radioactive fish to spark some outrage this time? And what would they look like?
Can we not imagine a catastrophe that unfolds invisibly, over time? Or do we need to see small suffering creatures to get our ire up?
Photoshopped image based on original by malias on Flickr
Addendum: Immediately after posting this, my friend Thom Kennon posted a link to the radiation dumping story on Facebook, and asked:” Huh?! shouldn’t this be a group decision?”
My colleague Erika Bleiberg links to this post and ask Baristanet readers if the radiation news is giving them Sushi Angst?
Well it’s been hammered into us by the pro nukes how safe these plants are, so what’s the problem of a little radiation, it’s good for us, isn’t it?? I hear Walmart will soon be selling personal Geiger counters in fluorescent colors.
“Where’s the outrage?”
Where, indeed.
Evidently the legacy of Chernobyl is being kept very, very quiet so that people won’t be reminded of the human suffering and ecological damage that was done during that disaster.
People are going to have to learn to reduce consumption and relying solely on renewable energy, and I don’t mean growing corn for the gastank, either. Since we refuse to control human overpopulation, the rich keep pushing consumption so they can continue profiting, and the planet is buckling under our destructive behaviours, it’s change NOW, while we still can, or there just won’t be a world to suck dry for all our “needs.” It’s just not going to work to suck the earth dry to the tune of 7 billion humans, and that set to double very shortly.
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