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I think you need to step back and look at the bigger picture of how this disaster has impacted Japan. Reducing this crisis, which is ongoing, to "1 death" demo
by newnewpdro 8y ago
I think you need to step back and look at the bigger picture of how this disaster has impacted Japan.
Reducing this crisis, which is ongoing, to "1 death" demonstrates a profound lack of empathy and understanding of what this nation has had to deal with because of these reactors.
- kazinator 8y agoAlso, the Wikipedia article that is cited as the source for "1 death" contains the following quote: A survey by the newspaper Mainichi Shimbun computed that of some 300,000 people who evacuated the area, approximately 1,600 deaths related to the evacuation conditions, such as living in temporary housing and hospital closures, had occurred as of August 2013, a number comparable to the 1,599 deaths directly caused by the earthquake and tsunami in the Fukushima Prefecture in 2011.
- isostatic 8y agoSo tsunamis are bad. I get that. Nuclear power did not cause the earthquake or tsunami.
- newnewpdro 8y agoEarthquakes and tsunamis happen. The nuclear reactors in Japan substantially exacerbated their negative consequences for the entire nation.