I keep thinking about our idiocy around the Indian Point Power Plant although we stopped Shoreham which cost over a billion dollars to change over when the people on Long Island refused to allow it to open as a nuclear power plant. Markets don't support nuclear power, politicians do. I suspect we are looking at something much deeper than idiocy. Perhaps a founding metaphor for cultures that look upon death not as transition but as a grim reaper that will harvest humans as plants. We even call it a Nuclear power "plant". It's different with us where the death principle is the same as the birth principle and is represented by the earth. In Europe death falls asleep and life is a dream until death awakens and carnage ensues with little input from the humans. [row, row, row your boat, life is but a dream] So the humans just "get along" as best they can given their story. Japan was humbled by the great Alpha Wolf America and as such assumed some of these founding metaphors as a way to technology. I'm not sure the Chinese or South Koreans have the same attitude but they may pay as well for the Japanese putting six reactors in the middle of 45 million people. Putting the fire of the sun next to the water of the ocean as if the sun could be controlled by the earth instead of the reverse.
Nature is the university or that is what we believe. We don't own, we are just caretakers and therein lies a problem. REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Gurstein Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 6:59 AM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION'; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Some Why's Re: Japan Whoops I misspoke evidently the population is more like 45 million people in (potential) harms way... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Tokyo_Area Given the scale of this thing one would have thought that someone somewhere with some authority would have done a risk assessment and built a 1000 year or even a hundred thousand year event into the planning... (and Arthur you point re: Silicon Valley/LA/Vancouver etc. being similarly at risk for 1000 year events (more likely 100 year events) is very well taken... M -----Original Message----- From: Michael Gurstein [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 7:49 AM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [Futurework] Some Why's Re: Japan How (if necessary) exactly do you evacuate a city of 25 million people and then once they are evacuated what then? In the meantime I wish them (and us) the very best of good health and good fortune. M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Harrell Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 2:47 AM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Some Why's Re: Japan And then there is this: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/opinion/17azuma.html?_r=1&hp This and Dr. Laurie Garrett science journalist from the Council on Foreign Relations spoke about how superior the Japanese were in their scientific preparation and their health care for such emergencies compared to the U.S. on Rachel Maddow this evening. Maybe they will pull this out of the bag. I certainly hope so. REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Gurstein Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:47 PM To: [email protected]; 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: [Futurework] Some Why's Re: Japan http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/world/asia/17tokyo.html?partner=rss&emc=rs s _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
