Business ethics is often a muddy field with many opposing points of view. I like this clear set of definitions. If the transnational entities followed anything like this, we would live in a different world.
James Pilant
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Does nuclear power have a negative learning curve? « Climate Progress (via Coral Gables Watch)
A brief and intelligent analysis of nuclear power. It’s too expensive.
James Pilant
EPA To Raise Limits For Radiation Exposure While Canada Turns Off Fallout Detectors (via The Oldspeak Journal)
I like outrage. Much happens these days that produces legitimate anger but too many people divert themselves from the pain of reality by choosing vital moral topics like Charlie Sheen’s job prospects. This willful desire to escape the pain of national and international policy is not one I respect. As citizens we have a duty to our fellow man to act intelligently and at times forcefully to correct abusive policies and poor decision making.
This is some outrage, in fact, quite a bit of outrage. I enjoyed very much. I hope you do too.
James Pilant
Japan nuclear crisis ‘breakthrough’ (via Al Jazeera English)
There has been progress but I do not consider this an end to the crisis. There are many elements of the crisis that still continues and considering the truthfulness of the Japanese government and TEPCO, I have doubts about the success of the current efforts.
James Pilant
Nanotechnology and public debate (via renevonschomberg)
I like this. Somebody that wants to discuss a controversial subject in an intelligent and reasonable way so that policies can be developed for the benefit of all.
No screaming, hair pulling, psychotic, religious zealots telling us how it has to be based on the most obscure and bizarre interpretation of bible verses or just church doctrine. No corporate flack, no corporate writing hack explaining the everything is fine, let the free market decide.
Just a call for actual policy development based on what we can figure out about the problem.
I like it.
James Pilant
via renevonschomberg
Quake to force shutdown of all US Toyota plants (via CBS News)
I think the ongoing nuclear crisis certainly contributed. But as time goes by, disastrous economic effects will be ascribed to the nuclear disaster. It’s just a matter of time.
James Pilant
Toyota Motor Corp. said Monday that it’s inevitable that the company will be forced to temporarily shut down all of its North American factories because of parts shortages due to the earthquake that hit Japan.
The temporary shutdowns are likely to take place later this month, affecting 25,000 workers, but no layoffs are expected, spokesman Mike Goss said. Just how long the shutdowns last or whether all 13 of Toyota’s factories will be affected at the same is unknown and depends on when parts production can restart in Japan, he said.
Sawdust and Radioactive Water Dumps: The Increasingly Desperate Options at Fukushima (via Time)
We have gone from contained to desperate and now we have arrived at the surreal. Maybe next they’ll try superglue or shopping carts. Neither will work but like the sawdust, they’ll give the impression that TEPCO, the Japanese utility, cares.
By the way, TEPCO’s shares are publicly traded. If you want to buy low, this is a good time.
James Pilant
Sawdust. It’s not the first thing most people would choose to put between themselves and highly contaminated radioactive water. But a mixture of sawdust — ogakuzu in Japanese — with chemicals and shredded newspaper is precisely what nuclear safety authorities and power plant officials turned to in trying to plug a 8-inch crack in a shaft near reactor 2 at the Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima over the weekend.
Unfortunately, like the concrete they tried before it, the sawdust didn’t work, and as of Monday, the flow of irradiated water into the sea from the shaft continued unabated. “We have not succeeded yet,” Ken Morita, director of the international affairs office at Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), acknowledged to TIME on Monday morning. “We will try again today.”
What will they try next? For the past three weeks, that has been the question hovering in the irradiated air above Fukushima, where each passing day seems to bring a new and unprecedented challenge for the ebattled Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) to shut down the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant safely.
Radiation Levels on the Rise (via Poison Your Mind)
A good take on yesterday’s news about the continuing massive leak at the Japanese nuclear facility. I wish these current events could be followed by more Americans.
It’s a nice blog. It would pay to look at some of the other posts there.
James Pilant
via Poison Your Mind
Fukushima Info Part 2 Updated April 5 (via TrueNorthist)
TrueNorthist has a daily update on the Japanese ongoing nuclear disaster. I appreciate those elements of the blogosphere that have not grown bored or moved on from the issue. The crisis produces new horrors every few days and these are literally history making events.
James Pilant
via TrueNorthist
A BOOK IN PROGRESS [PART 3]: ON STOICISM, FREE WILL & FATE (via Pandaemonium)
I find stoicism an attractive philosophy. I suspect that has to do with the slings and arrows of an implacable fate falling with such regularity. Hanging tough may be the only thing many Americans (and all Japanese) can do.
It’s a nice essay. I hope you enjoy it. Maybe you can buy the book when it’s finished.
James Pilant
via Pandaemonium
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