The Japanese nuclear catastrophe, just like Katrina and the BP oil spill in the gulf of Mexico have pretty much disappeared from the mass media. The level of the environmental damage that BP and Fukushima has caused will not be known for decades, perhaps centuries and neither were natural disasters in the sense that they are what are often called "Acts of god" to describe events that were outside of human control. Like Katrina, they were social disasters, the consequence of decisions made by men and women, the capitalist class that governs society. They were economic and political decisions based on the profit motive. We do know that their affect on human society and the natural world is of far more concern than Kim Kardashian's pending break up or divorce or whatever is happening to her and her superficial friends. But we are supposed to forget about it. You can bet the folks in that bus in the video below are in no way related to the people whose decision it was to build nuclear reactors on an earthquake fault in an area of the planet known as the "Ring of Fire" and next to the ocean in a country whose occupants speak the language that brought us the word Tsunami.
And the Obama administration has just given BP the go ahead to drill and even deeper well not far from the one that blew up killing 11 workers.
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