The Fukushima Catastrophe: To What End?

ISBN-13: 9789819919550 / Angielski

Kin Chi Lau; Huang Xiaomei; He Zhixiong

Spis treści

Foreword: Not Again, Please, Never Again - Rebecca Johnson.- Foreword: Charting Contested Contours Of Sustainaiblity, Development, Social And Ecological Justice - Anita Rampal.- Introduction: No Solutions In Sight, Making Possible The Impossible - Lau Kin Chi.- Introduction: Education For Ecological Justice And Social Justice – Cultivating The Capacity For Affect, Thinking, Autonomy And Action – Lau Kin Chi.- Introduction: When We Talk About Nuclear Energy, What Are We Talking About? - Huang Xiaomei.- Introduction: We Are In A Critical State - He Zhixiong.- Preface.- Part One.- I. What Happened In Fukushima?.- Ii. Natural Disasters Or Human-Caused Calamity.- Iii. Fairy Tale Of Astro Boy.- Iv. Three Questions On Nuclear Power.- V. The Long Road Home.- Vi.Revival? Clearing Evacuees To Zero?.- Vii. Glint Of Hope Ignited By The Olympic Torch?.- Viii. Where Did Contaminated Substances Go?.- Ix. Heart Of Darkness – The Molten Reactor Core.- X.Returning To The Scene: “Back Then, How Nice It Would Have Been, If Only….”.- Xi. Absent Supervision.- Xii. Radioactive Contamination Spread Worldwide – The Threat From Nuclear-Contaminated Water.- Xiii. Who Protects Decontamination Workers And Nuclear Energy Workers?.- Xiv. Mourning Of Nature.- Xv. From Nuclear Weapon To Nuclear Energy, From Nuclear Energy To Nuclear Weapon.- Xvi. The People’s Self Rescue.- Epilogue Resonance That Lit Up The Earth.- Part Two.- What I Saw After Shooting Fukushima For 10 Years – Toyoda Naomi.- Thoughts On Nuclear Power In Fukushima, Bangladesh, Rio, And Geneva - Ohashi Masaaki.- Eight Years From The Great East Japan Earthquake:  Current Situation Of Fukushima And Its Challenges - Aihara Hiroko.- Double Challenges To Japanese Farmers: The Nuclear Disaster And Transpacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement - Ando Takemasa.- Buildup Of Nuclear Armament Capability And The Post-War Statehood Of Japan: Fukushima And The Genealogy Of Nuclear Bombs And Power Plants - Muto Ichiyo.- "Obsession With Normalcy" And The World Today - Sun Ge.- Light Of The Sun Or Fire Of Purgatory: Nuclear Power Is The Destiny Of Industrial Civilization - Tian Song.

O autorze

Lau Kin Chi is Coordinator, Programme on Cultures of Sustainability at the Centre for Cultural Research and Development, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Huang Xiaomei is a freelance translator based in Hong Kong.

He Zhixiong is Director of the Digital Section, Green Ground Rural Reconstruction Social Enterprise Alliance, China.

Blurb

I applaud The Fukushima Catastrophe – To What End? and its authors Lau Kin Chi, Huang Xiaomei and He Zhixiong, because it analyzes how human and environmental risks are exacerbated by political and industrial policies that put profits above the protection of the people. 

-- Rebecca Johnson, co-founder, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons  (ICAN), Laureate of Nobel Peace Prize in 2017

This book serves as a timely, critical reminder of the dangers of ignoring or obfuscating the multi-layered terrain of nuclear power, including its largely unaccounted for social and ecological costs, and the world’s inability to deal with nuclear waste disposal.

-- Anita Rampal, Professor and Dean (retired), Faculty of Education, University of Delhi, India

Based on a variety of interviews with residents, farmers, scientists, journalists and activists who have been affected by the Fukushima catastrophe, the authors underscore the personal, political and humanitarian impacts in testimonies, science and photos. The book engagingly addresses diverse issues that continue to haunt and persist, and calls for collective responsibility to deal with the devastating environmental, economic and social consequences of nuclear energy. The book offers a critique of the violent history of modernism and supremacy of science that have been articulated into all forms of social injustice and ecological injustice.

Lau Kin Chi is Coordinator of Programme on Cultures of Sustainability at the Centre for Cultural Research and Development, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China.

Huang Xiaomei is freelance translator and simultaneous interpreter based in Hong Kong.

He Zhixiong is Director of the Digital Section, Green Ground Rural Reconstruction Social Enterprise Alliance, China.