Saturday, March 12, 2011

Japan tsunami- Is India sitting on ticking bomb?

Although we are facing one after another natural disasters,we fail to understand one thing that we should not mess up with nature.Hundreds of years hard work can we wiped out with in a day  if we do not respect nature.Tsunami in Jawa and the latest tsunami in Japan, should be  a wake up call for all of us,who are having misplaced priorities on development.

Modern meaning of development means uncontrolled industrialization.The positive side of industrialisation is ,it will create jobs,bring more prosperity for many individuals.On the other hand,industrialisation exploits nature,creates pollution on land ,water and air which is main source of our survival.Industrialization means,demand for more power,which will in turn puts lot of demand on coal,gas and nuclear fuel.Mushrooming growth of nuclear plants in the name of clean power,is putting the whole human race at risk at the cost of so called development.Our experts on nuclear energy understand very little and they keep lecturing on growth of nuclear energy and their claim on nuclear programme is  that our programme is extremely foolproof ! We did not learn anything from Chernobyl ,nor  are  we going to learn anything from the present,crisis in Japan nuclear plant disaster.

We are  putting nuclear plants everywhere,Kalpakam,Kaiga,and Rantnagiri so on, so forth. One major earth quake or Tsunami can cause a nuclear disaster which we are not  very sure ,that we are well equipped to handle. DO we have a plan to handle such disasters? Can the citizens of this country believe what our experts say? Do we have enough checks and balances on this programme? Are the People  made Guinea pigs,at the whims and fancies of these people?All the citizens of this country  likes to know.