Agreed... M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Cordell Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 9:56 AM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Before/After Northern Japan
In addition to building codes there has to be preparedness for after quake death and damage. This whole affair might lead to people taking the "big one' more seriously. People have been denying the problem and possibilities and have built all along the coast in improbable places. Maybe new construction will have to be set back some. I don't know but I hope that this event has awakened folks from their denial. So maybe the porno-damage 24/7 coverage by the networks might just do some good in getting people here to think seriously. arthur From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Gurstein Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 8:23 AM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Before/After Northern Japan What lesson do you want to draw... Relocate San Fran... Put a 40 foot seawall out from Robert's Bank to where... Move the population from the CA. OR, WA coast back to half way up the coastal range... The atomic meltdowns are horrific (in prospect) but the greatest damage/loss of life is going to be from the once in 1000 yrs. quake and tsunami and how do you draw lessons from that... Seriously... M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Cordell Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 8:44 AM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Before/After Northern Japan I am also in a crabby mood today. The networks have moved from reporting on events to a kind of repetitive showing of damage, death and destruction. A kind of porno-damage. Enough. The nuclear issue will have to be resolved but lesson one is don't put a reactor on an earthquake fault. Another lesson seems to be that no matter how well prepared a nation is, the force of "the big one" and tsunami will be very destructive. Any lessons for the Pacific coasts of Canada and the US? arthur From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Gurstein Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 7:17 AM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Before/After Northern Japan I completely agree... I was under the impression that this was in fact on Hokaido until I saw this map... We aren't talking Alaska here, we are talking New Hampshire or even Boston! (i.e. it's not Moose Factory it's Ottawa!)... BTW, the Grauniad is live blogging at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/14/japan-tsunami-nuclear-alert-live -coverage (source for the below... It is increasingly looking like a frightful scenario... "Northern" (actually the northern part of central) Japan as Chernobyl? M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Weick Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 7:50 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Before/After Northern Japan I'm in a crabby mood this morning. For several days now I've been seeing references to "northern Japan". The scene of the quake was not northern Japan, it was northern Honshu. You've got all of the island of Hokaido including the city of Sapporo north of that. Nothern Japan indeed! Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Gurstein" < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> To: < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]>; "'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION'" < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 5:58 AM Subject: [Futurework] Before/After Northern Japan > <http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm> http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] > <https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework> https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework >
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