Dear Editor,
Japan is the only country to have experienced a nuclear holocaust when the US dropped bombs on it in World War II. Japan recovered. But, accidentally, though, almost as if in retribution, Japan has now unleashed on the world a form of nuclear attack in the Fukushima disaster that has been pouring nuclear waste into the sea for the past three years and will continue to deliver an unprecedented nuclear attack on the world for the next 200 years.
The nuclear waste that has a lifespan of more than 200 years pours out of Fukushima daily and is polluting the seas of the world at an alarming rate that will continue unabated for who knows how long — as they still haven’t found a way to get it under control. More and more food from the oceans will become polluted and remain so for many lifetimes to come. Species of seafood will disappear, beginning with the large sea animals, whose gigantic bodies have started to float up on beaches around the world, while other species will become too polluted to eat. The world climate, that depends on the sea and its currents to modulate temperatures, will continue to heat up and destroy other sea life such as corals, beaches and eventually land.
The Fukushima disaster in Japan, for which there is presently no solution, will change the world as we know it. It will change human life for at least another few centuries. Wealthy and powerful nations have already built underground residential facilities for their select political, elite and wealthy citizens in preparation for a time when the effects of nuclear pollution reach the land in ways that will decimate populations.
Food banks have been stored hundreds of feet underground, ready to restock the world when vegetation disappears or changes. Space exploration seeks new planets to host human life emigration, with a community of pioneers already signed up for a one-way ticket to colonise and create a civilisation on Mars.
Have we given up on this planet already? Today the world is more concerned with who will be the next US president, and tabloid affairs, than the future of our human race. I wonder what will life on Earth be like for our children and grandchildren in 100, 200 years? Which of them will have found solutions to maintain life on a planet whose temperatures, vegetation, animals, food supply, air quality and more are totally changed from what we now know and experience? Will mass panic lead to civil, racial, religious and economic wars fought in the streets, where only the fittest will survive? Or will mankind have found the way to live together in peace, harmony and love while ways to resolve this pending catastrophe are discovered? That would be the right solution; but looking at mankind today, I have serious doubts that will be the path taken. I can only pray.
Barbara Makeda Blake Hannah
jamediapro@hotmail.com
Japan is the only country to have experienced a nuclear holocaust when the US dropped bombs on it in World War II. Japan recovered. But, accidentally, though, almost as if in retribution, Japan has now unleashed on the world a form of nuclear attack in the Fukushima disaster that has been pouring nuclear waste into the sea for the past three years and will continue to deliver an unprecedented nuclear attack on the world for the next 200 years.
The nuclear waste that has a lifespan of more than 200 years pours out of Fukushima daily and is polluting the seas of the world at an alarming rate that will continue unabated for who knows how long — as they still haven’t found a way to get it under control. More and more food from the oceans will become polluted and remain so for many lifetimes to come. Species of seafood will disappear, beginning with the large sea animals, whose gigantic bodies have started to float up on beaches around the world, while other species will become too polluted to eat. The world climate, that depends on the sea and its currents to modulate temperatures, will continue to heat up and destroy other sea life such as corals, beaches and eventually land.
The Fukushima disaster in Japan, for which there is presently no solution, will change the world as we know it. It will change human life for at least another few centuries. Wealthy and powerful nations have already built underground residential facilities for their select political, elite and wealthy citizens in preparation for a time when the effects of nuclear pollution reach the land in ways that will decimate populations.
Food banks have been stored hundreds of feet underground, ready to restock the world when vegetation disappears or changes. Space exploration seeks new planets to host human life emigration, with a community of pioneers already signed up for a one-way ticket to colonise and create a civilisation on Mars.
Have we given up on this planet already? Today the world is more concerned with who will be the next US president, and tabloid affairs, than the future of our human race. I wonder what will life on Earth be like for our children and grandchildren in 100, 200 years? Which of them will have found solutions to maintain life on a planet whose temperatures, vegetation, animals, food supply, air quality and more are totally changed from what we now know and experience? Will mass panic lead to civil, racial, religious and economic wars fought in the streets, where only the fittest will survive? Or will mankind have found the way to live together in peace, harmony and love while ways to resolve this pending catastrophe are discovered? That would be the right solution; but looking at mankind today, I have serious doubts that will be the path taken. I can only pray.
Barbara Makeda Blake Hannah
jamediapro@hotmail.com