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When a government doesn't care about their citizens because there's "too many of them" you get stuff like this (http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/asia/china-organ-h
by pwaai 9y ago
When a government doesn't care about their citizens because there's "too many of them" you get stuff like this (http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/asia/china-organ-harvesting/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/asia/china-organ-harvesting/in...). So, of course they are going to be more willing to ignore basic human rights to achieve their goals. I'm not saying the US is innocent either, privatized prisons targeting African and Latin Americans to benefit shareholders of those private companies is legalized genocide (how many fatherless black children growing up in the ghetto are equipped to adjust to mainstream society)?
There is a lot of misinformation regarding the Fukushima disaster if you dig around and the long term effect on the population near that region is not being addressed and being covered up. Their exposure to the radiation will not show immediately as in most nuclear disasters but at a delayed rate after it takes a toll on their bodies. This type of silence is typical of the Japanese where they will hide mistakes for as long as it's tolerated (ex. Kobe Steel etc).
I don't think it's safe to look at Fukushima and say "oh only 100 ppl died its safe" to justify proliferation of nuclear reactors because the damages are not limited to those loss of life. Germany understands this and lot of European countries are moving away from Nuclear power altogether.
- yongjik 9y agoOh yes, people surely love to claim Fukushima is being covered up, and I'm sure many Japanese politicians and businesspeople are being dishonest and trying to cover up their asses, but let's be real. Japan is a dense and well-connected country, and it's been six years. If the deaths and destruction predicted by doomsayers have any basis in reality, we should have seen a glimpse of it by now. (But the very fact that no such thing is happening is of course considered an evidence of cover-up. How you are going to cover up a thousand leukemia deaths in Japan is left as exercise for the reader.) Sadly, I do believe many Fukushima residents will suffer long-term health effects, which is inevitable when you've been told a hundred times how your body was irradiated by death rays and you will have cancer as a result. It was a major issue following Chernobyl as well[1]: > A number of adolescents and young adults who have been exposed to modest or small amounts of radiation feel that they are somehow fatally flawed and there is no downside to using illicit drugs or having unprotected sex. To reverse such attitudes and behaviours will likely take years (...) I hold those anti-nuclear activists at the same level of contempt as peddlers of homeopathy and other natural woo. These activists likely caused greater harm to children of Fukushima prefecture than the accident itself, by making them believe they are irrevocably harmed and their lives will be stunted. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Other_health_disorders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Other_healt...
- JPLeRouzic 9y agoThank you for writing that. We need more people like you to help the human species mitigate this race to the bottom (no technology, no healthcare, no compassion/humanity in activism).