Japan's Chaos is a Wake-up Call

Japan's Chaos is a Wake-up Call
It's time for a nuclear energy time-out. by Alice Slater

Sometimes chaos comes along as a wake-up call to humanity. Japan's double-whammy earthquake-tsunami is overwhelmingly tragic. Being at the mercy of the total chaotic effect of the elements--able to be wiped out by a wave of water from the sea--is an insult to the arrogance of modern humanity that thinks it can insulate and protect itself with technological know-how from the calamities visited upon our earth by Mother Nature....Read More

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Skyscrapers swaying like trees in the breeze , Japan’s Strict Building Codes Saved Lives, # earthquake, #Japan

"What was scariest was to look up at the skyscrapers all around. They were swaying like trees in the breeze. " ~WILLIAM M. TSUTSUI, a professor at Southern Methodist Univeristy, who was in Tokyo when the earthquake hit.

Japan’s Strict Building Codes Saved Lives