Japan

The events in Japan are horrifying, to say the least.


A great many innocents will suffer greatly because of a natural disaster, and an awful man-made version too.


Humankind won't defeat nature. Sure, we'll get in our pop-shots every now and then, but we are at our planet's mercy. There is a train of thought that the Earth, slowly but surely, is getting rid of the human race in much the same way we go to the toilet to have a long, satisfying dump. A crude analogy, but true all the same.


Then there's the human race and our insatiable appetite for progress and profit.


What knobhead decided to build a nuclear power station so close to a known rupture in the Earth's crust??? No, let's backtrack a second, there's a more basic and serious question to ask - what knobhead decided to build a nuclear power station???????


Didn't the Japanese people learn ANYTHING from the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?


The answer is fairly simple - no. Because the demand for energy has countermanded any grain of common sense that atomic power is dangerous, and way, way out of our league to properly understand or control.


And, sadly, a huge wad of money can be made from it too - the moral argument against nuclear power goes out of the window there and then.


The scenes from Japan are heartbreaking and humbling. The power of nature is completely overwhelming. Mother Nature has fired a warning shot, but will we, as a species, take any notice??????


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