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Okay, this makes me wanna dig a hole in the ground and hide. Very scary stuff.[:0]
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That's just it. It's not scary.
When I saw the big headline in the HTH this morning I was prepared for the worst, but luckily the article itself was a lot more rational. It should be in the paper - it's true and it's news. Otherise there would be crazy rumors.
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When on island, I always buy local milk. I would rather buy local milk from grass fed cattle than mainland milk with its own contaminants (including Fukushima byproducts) shipped all the way across the Pacific. Island milk is better, even now, and perhaps especially now.
However, to minimize the effects of Fukushima is itself irrational. It's a slow motion, mega-disaster carried on the wind and in water in ways we are just beginning to understand.
And it is not over. The article simply points out that Hawaii has not been unaffected. The entire Pacific Rim and beyond will be affected and this process will continue until Fukushima is entombed and is no longer leaking into the ocean. At that point we will be able to better assess the damage at a given point, and not until. This is the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, by Japan's own assessment.
This incident underscores the importance of island sustainability. Island milk is sustainability.
That being said, island milk is like the famously pure air of Kapoho -- the thought that anything has affected its purity to even a slight degree is what is shocking. Hawaii standards in this regard are, or should be higher. As long as people understand that it is all relative, things should be fine.
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Thank you PaulW for being a voice of reason here! I saw this going around facebook this morning and every respondent jumped onto the crazy train with the original poster for a trip to Hysteriaville. So, if you're riding that train right now, have a nice Trip.
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Less than 100 people died from radiation in Chernobyl.
As far as I know, so far exactly zero people have died from radiation in Japan.
We're about as far away from the reactor as we are from New Orleans.
No need to panic.
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No panic here. Sober disappointment at the minimization of the scale of Fukushima. By the way, get your sharp pointed walking sticks and trash bags ready. Something wicked this way comes:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/japa...esin3years
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What's your definition of "mega-disaster" then? Sounds like blind hysteria to me.
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I was waiting for my car repair in Pahoa today & there was a women stressing out & stating she would not let her kids anywhere near milk... she was sooo stressed she had to leave the shop & go smoke, even though her manager reminder her that the cigarette was way worse for her kids... she had 2 smokes while I waited for the safety..... she said she was smoking so much because she was sooo nervous about the irradiated milk! neither SHOULD be in Hawaii, true, but....
BTW: a banana has 4 picocuries of naturally occurring radioactive Potassium, .... one cigarette a day gives you 15-20 millirems of radiation in a year.... if you are very worried, work on the things that are REAL! if you are smoking (or near someone smoking) a pack a day, you are over 400 milirems in a year...
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I don't think anyone in this thread has minimized the scale of the Fukushima disaster. Let's just be careful not to maximize it either. The devastation in the area for miles around the plant and the ocean nearby are sobering and appalling. The lives of the workers in and around the plant right now who are being sacrificed is horrifying. But, we are not all going to die from it or even get sick.
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I'm more stressed about being screwed out of Medicare and Social Security by Wall Street and their politicians than radiation from the Japanese tragedy..... just saying a little perspective is needed.
