Japan warns that one of its nuclear plants may be in meltdown after a record quake and tsunami wiped out a swathe of the northeast, leaving more than 1,000 people feared dead.
Peter Hayes, the executive director of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable development in Melbourne, describes the situation as “dire” and explains how a “massive nuclear crisis” could unfold
Jaap den Haan
March 12, 2011 at 3:33 pmThe paramount ambition of all so-called ‘developed’ countries is to achieve an ever higher percentage of growth of their economies to become, thereby, richer; and, in an economic world based on competition, to attain dominance and power, and so enjoy a higher standard of life. This being so, the pillaging of the Earth, the cavalier waste of resources, is seen as only natural and necessary. This irresponsible action has at last brought planet Earth almost to its knees.
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