Thursday 14 June 2012

Japan

From CollapseNet


Japan: Winding Down In Progress



The dance continues:




When there is a finite and scarce supply of any material that is strongly in demand, there will always be shortages.   The shutdowns of Japan's nuclear reactors has lead to exactly this situation.  A subsequent concern that will need to be addressed eventually: What is going to happen to all of that radioactive material whether or not Japan decides to restart their nuclear reactors.
The law of unintended consequences of Fukushima is and will be to hastened Japan's demise as an industrialized power.   Japan's industrial capacity, productivity, and efficiency were what vaulted Japan to be one of the largest economies on Earth.  
Post-Fukushima, Japan's edge is lost and now it doesn't even have the spare energy to keep Japanese citizens cool.  This may seem like only the loss of a luxury, but it is foreshadowing for worse electrical situations to follow if Japan can't replace it's nuclear power with alternatives.  This must happen quickly and smoothly or the Japanese economic miracle will cease to be and forever considered epilogue.  The protests will only grow worse.
Japan now faces the hard choices that other industrialized people will face:  What are a country's priorities if there is a limited supply of energy?
The descisions this generation of Japanese make will help or haunt them for millennia.

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