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“Clearly, we’re witnessing one of the greatest disasters in modern time.”
– Alan Hansen, of Areva, the French company that supplied fuel to Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant, quoted in the New York Times, From Far Labs, A Vivid Picture Emerges of Japan Crisis.
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“I just wish they would have thought about safety before they ruined our lives.”
– Kazuko Hirohara, a 52-year-old nurse from Minami Soma, quoted in an AP story, Radiation Leaks into Groundwater Under Japan Nuclear Plant.
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“The question is: What is a nation willing to sacrifice? In Japan’s case,...”
– From Alex Kerr, Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan (Hill & Wang, 2001). Fantastically prescient, Kerr’s book reveals the human cost of sacrificing the environment for the economy.
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February 2011
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WatchThis lovely, affecting, and heart-breaking short film, Lawrence Chen’s Little Things, won first prize in a TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) competition for films that communicate the value of nature.
At the TEEB website, Pavan Sukhdev describes the innovative work that TEEB is doing to incorporate the essential value and contributions of nature and biodiverstiy into our...
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