RT | August 5, 2013
Embattled Fukushima operator Tepco has been accused of a “weak sense of crisis”, as its failing battle to prevent radioactive water from seeping into the seawater near the plant has become an “emergency”, according to the country’s nuclear watchdog.
The way in which our society is structured ensures that environmental degradation and destruction is written into the actual function of our society. Trade agreements not only allow rich countries and companies to exploit the cheap labor of poor nations, or to simply plunder their wealth and resources, but we also “offshore” our environmental degradation to poor countries, leaving profoundly negative side effects for health and ecology around the world. This process is called ‘ecological unequal exchange,’ and it is written into the system itself.
The way in which our society is structured ensures that environmental degradation and destruction is written into the actual function of our society. Trade agreements not only allow rich countries and companies to exploit the cheap labor of poor nations, or to simply plunder their wealth and resources, but we also “offshore” our environmental degradation to poor countries, leaving profoundly negative side effects for health and ecology around the world. This process is called ‘ecological unequal exchange,’ and it is written into the system itself.
This story happened more than 70 or 80 years ago, in the Galilee Heights, during the British occupation “Mandate” to Palestine, a long time before we had the “honor” to host our “cousins’ the jews. There, in one of the …
