Fukushima

Map showing spread of leaked radiation on prevailing winds

The attention-deficit-propelled news cycle may have forgotten about the Fukushima power plant in Japan. The power plant is still leaking radiation. The genie is out of the bottle. It is likely that everyone on the planet will eventually feel the impact of this man-made catastrophe. Radiation from nuclear waste does not just go away. It cannot be contained without extreme measures. Those extreme measures are not being taken in Japan. Our planet is a fairly closed biological, chemical and physical system. In other words, radiation effects will eventually circulate throughout our planet's environment in some form.

Fukushima is a model of the planet's future on its present course. More and more Fukushimas will develop without drastic change in global governmental actions against future pollution and current environmental degradation. Anyone who has decided to bring children into this world bears a great deal of responsibility to bear in this. Taking the attitude of "They'll figure it out." will not cut it. Unless a mass movement for environmental activism occurs worldwide very soon, the children of today will inherit a bleak tomorrow.