Japan..fukushima....it hasn't gone away you know!!!

Shryke wrote: »

Alright Pottler, fair enough. I didn't mean to attack you.
There are good reasons that it shouldn't be reported on often and that everything shouldn't be thrown into headlines. It creates panic when people don't fully grasp things, which they wouldn't.

"The effects of Chernobyl have been found to have been far less than thought in a recent study"


"Wow...I guess I must have been imagining things when I saw all the deformed babies,kids and young adults in homes in Belarus. "





. The Japanese are very insular and prideful but they're not stupid. The after effects in the long term aren't going to be calamitous.
As far as the radioactive contamination of the sea goes its effect is next to nil, even with fish stock affected.


"Yawn...Mary Poppins...eat ur heart out. "




Something being reported on and being dealt with are two different things, reporting itself isn't always a good thing, and it doesn't help in this case except to feed the media machine and cause paranoia.

It must be terrible for everyone there. Because it's nuclear it's very easy to imagine the worst but the worst isn't going to happen thankfully. Far more lives are lost and destroyed over other disasters and genocides and so on.
The two nuclear bombs dropped on Japan killed less than the fire bombing of Dresden. Because it's nuclear doesn't always mean it's the very worst.

Anyway it's late. Didn't mean to have a go. I'm off for the night.