Re: [Marxism] more seismology info on Japan's nuclear reactor

[Lajany Otum <lajany_otum@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

D Walters writes:

<<The bigger issue is what to do with a 8 gigawatt, 7 reactor cluster of 
nuclear power plants sitting on a 6.8 earthquake fault? All of Japans 
auxiliary fossil plants are now on line pumping out carbon to make up 
for the short fall in megawatts.>>

The bigger issue is to what purpose all this energy being used? The
logic of capitalist competition which determines patterns of 
consumption and production in Japan and elsewhere requires that 
demand and production increase, almost as ends in themselves, and 
that the consequences be damned --whatever they may be -- so long 
as the position of the respective section of capital is maintained 
or improved in relation to its global competitors. That is, we have 
to compete for no other reason than that we're in the competition --
or we're here because we're here.

Lajany Otum

  








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