FROM: THE CHISELER
Chiseler editor Daniel Riccuito recently met with Dr. Michael Parenti to discuss three global issues: Fukushima, Palestine and TPP (the Trans-Pacific Partnership). What follows is installment one of three.
Why isn’t President Obama more vocal about the ongoing environmental calamity caused by Fukushima?
For over two years, President Obama has been as mute about the calamity looming at Fukushima as the Japanese government itself—-and for the same reasons. First, the potential danger is stupendous and it is in the manner of leaders, when facing something that might develop into a super catastrophe, to keep the public’s mind off it. The last thing they want is to put the public into a fright and fury about their own survival vis-a-vis nuclear power.
Were people to focus on Fukushima they might very well come to the correct conclusion that nuclear power is too utterly dangerous to sustain. Building nuclear plants is akin to creating potential cataclysms. The public already is troubled about the possible disasters that are looming, including the need to find adequate aquatic sources for cooling purposes; the need to prevent meltdowns and massive explosions in the face of tsunamis, earthquakes, and onsite accidents; and finally, the need to develop faultless means to decommission troubled plants or keep them safely intact for the next 45,ooo years in order to prevent a meltdown and explosion that would make Hiroshima seem incidental.
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