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Japan and the lesson to be learned

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L’orribile cataclisma che si è abbattuto sul popolo giapponese deve indurci ad una profonda autocritica politica, filosofica ed esistenziale della nostra first civilization to establish the finiteness of the human condition, reflecting on the relationship between the vulnerability of human beings and the immense power of nature and become aware that our technology, however advanced it may be, highlights a number of limitations and shortcomings objective that succeeds in the face of terrible fury of the natural elements.

I can try to reconstruct the facts in short, to obtain, if possible, some valuable lessons that could serve the whole of humanity, provided that it is aware and wants to grasp and understand the meaning conveyed by recent events. Like any traumatic experience which overwhelms the lives of individuals and peoples, including the collective tragedy that shocked Japan is giving some historical lessons.

The Japanese people used for centuries to live with the constant risk of earthquakes and has learned to cope with frightening than any other country in the world, the painful consequences caused by natural forces against which humanity is always forced to confront. No coincidence that Japan is at the forefront of anti-seismic technologies and is a model for all the peoples who inhabit the Earth.

In recent days, Japan was hit by a series of devastating earthquakes, including the most violent shock lasted 400 seconds (ie more than 6 ½ minutes) and land-based high energy given off, with a magnitude measured at 8.9 on the Richter scale, akin to the maximum limit which is 10 degrees. In simple words, the intensity of the quake was 20 000 times greater than the earthquake that destroyed the Eagle and reached a power of 5.8 on the Richter scale . After the strongest in Japan, there were many aftershocks that have exceeded 6 on the Richter scale.

If a similar earthquake had occurred anywhere else in the world, would have caused an unimaginable carnage, while Japan came out virtually unscathed had not suffered casualties, but a couple of deaths that seem to be due cardiac arrest. Unfortunately, the earthquake was followed by an unprecedented tsunami of a force that hit the northeastern coast of the Japanese archipelago, penetrating inland in a radius of 5 kilometers flooded entire towns and rural villages submerged by water and tens of thousands of dead and missing. Therefore, the tsunami caused the most damage and has made slaughter among the people stanziate lungo le zone costiere.

Come se ciò non bastasse, si sono verificate violente esplosioni ed incendi in alcune centrali atomiche generando il pericolo di una catastrofe ambientale e sanitaria, per cui l'allarme e la protesta che si vanno diffondendo in queste ore nel mondo contro lo sfruttamento dell'energia nucleare, sono assolutamente inevitabili e più che giustificati.

Le considerazioni da fare sono molteplici, alcune “confortanti” , altre un po’ meno.

Anzitutto occorre prendere atto che la vicenda giapponese fornisce la conferma che anche l’evento sismico più devastante, per quanto imprevedibile, può essere contenuto nei suoi effetti catastrofici mettendo in sicurezza le abitazioni che non sono a norma e costruendo gli edifici pubblici e privati con criteri rigorosamente antisismici come quelli applicati da anni in Giappone, che hanno dimostrato di reggere alle prove più terribili.

Questo è il dato positivo, che ci conforta nella misura in cui attesta che è possibile salvaguardare la vita umana e l’integrità degli agglomerati urbani rispetto alle conseguenze prodotte da un sisma di quelle dimensioni, mentre una riflessione negativa si deve avviare di fronte all'incontenibile fury of a tsunami. The discovery of such undeniable evidence compels us to admit the limitations and weaknesses inherent in the current development model that emphasizes a very technology that seeks to enslave and make the nature and man to the cynical logic and office of the capital.

deserves a separate discussion the issue of nuclear power plants and the improper use of nuclear energy. In fact, while earthquakes and tsunamis are natural disasters absolutely unavoidable, although the effects are sizable banks and at least in the case of terrestrial phenomena, the risks arising from the use atomic energy can be avoided because it is a choice that depends on the political will of States.

The most alarming given us by the media concerning the explosion at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, which is 250 km from Tokyo, with the reactor core that threatens the merger, the plant No cooling of the reactor 2 officially discarded, some amount of radioactive cesium released into the external environment, dozens of people already contaminated by radiation and do not know what else happened and what might happen in the coming hours. In addition, a new explosion occurred at the Fukushima plant last night, damaging the reactor number 3 and arouse strong fears and concerns. The same Japanese government was forced to alert the press and general public of the risk of melting in the reactor No 3 of the installation.

Gianni Mattioli, a member of "Committee vote yes to stop the nuclear , quite rightly calls: " In a situation in which the French are building one from 1991 Central, 80 Americans are not making any system, because we in a territory earthquake in which the possible sites is reduced to Sardinia and not much else we should build power plants? ". The conviction that landed Mattioli is "a deep rebellion for the incompetence and ignorance of those who will pursue this option, against which we are planning a great battle for democracy and scientific culture" .

The Speaker Gianfranco Fini, guest on "The Interview" led by Maria Latella on Sky TG24, about the possible repercussions "emotional" che potrebbero condizionare il piano di rilancio dell’energia atomica in Italia, ha dichiarato: "Il mio auspicio è che non si decida solo sull’onda dell’emozione" . Ricordo che anche in seguito al disastro di Chernobyl si disse che non bisognava decidere emotivamente e che si trattava di una centrale arretrata dal punto di vista tecnologico. Cosa che non vale nel caso degli impianti giapponesi, per cui è certo che la decisione più saggia sia quella di rinunciare all’impiego dell’energia atomica. Alla faccia di Chicco Testa e della lobby di scienziati, politici ed affaristi fautori del ripristino del nucleare in Italia (che oltretutto has an area of \u200b\u200bhigh seismic risk) in a time when elsewhere we discuss the possibility of finally overcoming the exploitation of nuclear energy sources.

In conclusion, it is not "profiteering" the attitude of one who finds the real dangers associated with the exploitation of nuclear power in light of the dramatic experience of Japanese, but the cynicism and l & # 8217; profiteering that fuel the propaganda carried out in recent years to convince the Italian public opinion to accept the deception left nuclear power plants as a solution, illusory, problems energetici del nostro paese.

Lucio Garofalo