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It is well known that the number of people killed by the evacuation easily exceeds the number of people killed by radiation, which if not zero is close to zero.
I recently attended another lecture at Princeton, by Ryo Morimoto the author of "Nuclear Ghost." I have not read this book, but my take on the author's lecture is precisely what I indicated.
The main cause of the trauma was fear and ignorance, not radiation.
During the Northern Hemisphere summer huge stretches of the planet burned. The same is now happening in the Southern Hemisphere. Vast glaciers on which billions of people depend are disappearing. Seas are rising and island nations are trying to figure out where their inhabitants will go.
You want to talk about silkworms. I want to talk about the entire planet. When 1/3 of Pakistan went under water from melting glaciers in September 2022, do you think any cultures were impacted? Is it possible that some of the cultural artifacts destroyed in these floods were hundreds of years old? Any important ecosystems, and economic animals destroyed.
Suppose the nuclear reactors weren't there. Would anyone have cared about the roughly 20,000 people killed by seawater?
No, they wouldn't.
And for the record, the Oil Slick from the Deep Horizon disaster was the size of the State of Oklahoma. I deplore the statement that it wasn't "too bad" because it was at sea. Hundreds of thousands of lives have derived their living from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It's not a lesser event simply because you care more about silkworms than craps and fish.
Everybody has an anecdote that they feel justifies their selective attention. I reject this nonsense wholly.
People whining about Fukushima should come back to me when they want to advocate for the banning of coastal cities because of the risks of Tsunamis.
Nuclear power need not be without risk to be superior to everything else. It only needs to be superior everything else, which it is.
The carrying on about Fukushima is, in my view, obscene, and frankly deadly.
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