Erinnerung

[matrixmann]

Originally posted by matrixmann at Erinnerung

2011: An earthquake with the magnitude of 9.0 appears under water not far from the coast of Japan.
First the quake itself devastates the area, but more importantly it triggers a tsunami wave which adds on top of this.
A nearby nuclear power plant in Fukushima was affected heavily by both and, due to human arrogance and greed that made it be constructed suitable to economical needs, but not apropriate to the needs of a facility that stands on a cliff coast of a volcanic island, a meltdown appeared during the following days.
400.000 people in estimated numbers had to leave their homes and be evacuated in the zone set by the state around the power plant.
The state of Japan, being located where it is, hung on a thing thread depending on the outcome of the acute actions made to meet this disaster.

Still until this very day, the consequences out of this event keep the authorities busy.

Comments

[matrixmann]

As far as I know for WWII in Europe - the rural areas, not only the damage from bombing wasn't that huge (well, what to bomb if there's no aim to find, really?), but also the supply situation in foods and that stuff. Back then, the countries were way more self-sufficient in their food supply.
So, with less damage present, the people in the countryside at least could supply themselves with foods directly.
Well, today nothing like a thinkable scneario... They all outsourced that except for profitable core businesses.

Well, if it is more comfortable to die from radiation and the type of damage a nuclear missle can cause or from starving dozens of kilometers underneath the surface of earth - I don't really want to judge this as both is horrible. First option is painful, very painful, but the other also must be characterized by feelings of constant powerlessness, and in the end it must be a really slow death. And if that does feel more comfortable than the other, I don't know...
Saying, when the case of all cases really applies, you'll only be able to run away from your fate for some time, but you won't be able to avoid it ultimately. That fact you must be clear with in your head.

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

"I don't know..."

I am certain that the far and lonely you could be the better after watching the documentary about nuclear bombing of Japan cause it was a hell with thousands of wounded screaming for help and water children around - nice place for a man seeking a praise for a soon paradise...

"Saying, when the case of all cases really applies, you'll only be able to run away from your fate for some time, but you won't be able to avoid it ultimately. That fact you must be clear with in your head."

Yes and no, the traces on our lands showing that we were through a real nuclear war ten-more thousands years ago - it had caused people moving to the South while the climate was more mild on the North - it is all easy readable, so people had survived though of course it wasn't a celebration of humanism for sure...

[matrixmann]

I am well aware of the fact of one's own inner drive to survive. Even if all conditions speak against it, you feel horrible pain, still it wants to get by, even if the situation is something that indicates "there is no way out here". Nothing harder there is than surrendering to death - or even executing that idea to take that into your own hand.
So I can imagine for myself, even if your whole body is burned, your skin melts off your bones and you're indeed only a half torso with a head and an arm - still you cling to live instinctively and try to go on living, from that situation.
So I really don't want to judge what is worse in that situation - trying to survive as half a portion of a human or knowing your air runs out, supplies run out and you gonna starve sooner or later in a few days/weeks.
Saying... despair can drive you up the walls. Despair lets you eat things which you know make you sick, despair even lets you forget about radiation or contamination if it lets you breathe and fill your stomach.
It lets you forget about the cancer that comes in only a few days, it lets you forget about all your hesitations and your logic thinking in a blow, if it can only satisfy those basic needs.
Your brain isn't even interested in if those actions will kill you, although your mind knew that before firmly.

I won't say this is very comfortable either... When your inner drive to survive goes havoc and won't accept its fate, even though every resistance is futile.

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

Yesterday I spoke to my floor neighbor, he is sixty five, a pensioner from fifty cause was working on harmful factories, he has no tooth, his legs are nearly not working cause his back is profusely damaged. When I am telling his to cure his back he is telling that he is preparing for death cause he has lived enough... I am thinking for such old fellow it would be fine to die some how much more interesting than to get rotten weak on a bed but... the children... maybe only the thought about our children is stoping this world or powerful fat asses starting wars for profit to not play to hard with countries paying the bill to have a nuclear answer to the main question...

[matrixmann]

Hm, I'd say...
What has conquering territory and other countries resources been for? What purpose?
To use it yourself. So you can't contamine it for thousands of years because that oil will also be your gasoline inside the tank of your expensive car. Your food will also come from potentially contamined sources...
So that's why the nuclear answer still remains like some sort of "very last option to win the game". Things just have moved on since Little Boy...
No rich guy wants to suffer damage himself from his chessboard games.