Fukushima leak is 'much worse than we were led to believe'

[caseymoz]

19. I wouldn't place it that dire.

But it's pretty dire. And I have a little expertise about radiation.

It probably won't kill the whole planet. It might take 5-15 years off peoples' life expectancy, and make things more uncomfortable in between time, but I think the planet death scenario is unlikely.

And most likely we can probably kiss Japan goodbye, and the refugee problem from that will be enormous.

It seems like we've had a planet shaking environmental crisis every year for the last 5 years. I mean there was Deep Water Horizon, there was Fukishima I, Fukishima II . . . it looks like this is going to be the new normal too, unless people rise up and abnormalize it. For one thing, even producing plutonium should become a crime against humanity.

Fukishima might not kill us, but environmental catastrophes this bad year-after-year definitely will.