Recently the one year anniversary of the Japanese Earthquake
passed which allowed us to remember the horrible videos of the defenseless Japanese
people being lifted off their feet by huge tidal waves. We watched monumental
buildings being torn down by unwithstainable frequencies being created by mother
earth herself.
The months following Japan’s catastrophic earthquake, the Fukushima
Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant threatened the environment as nuclear reactors were
overheating and melting the plant due to the lack of a functioning cooling
system after the quake. It seemed as if every day we would hear updates on the
evening news of the continuing devastation of the power plant and its local environment.
The radiation cleanup is still occurring where all debris or dirt exposed to
radiation has to be bagged and destroyed.
A more current threat that our ecosystem is being threatened
with is the floating debris that is traveling across the Pacific Ocean. This
floating junk is moving from the waters of Japan all the way to the California
coast line by 2014, as stated in the following article: <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2100784/Map-25million-tons-tsunami-debris-hit-California.html> The plastics and Styrofoam pieces threaten the bird
and fish populations of the pacific, where they can eat these inedible, dangerous
pieces of debris and die. There really isn’t any threat of radiation in this
floating trash because the isotopes should have already aged and died off. In
Alaska, the trash has already hit them and in a John Blackstone interview the
impact of this debris is prevalently explored. <http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57443283/toxic-japanese-debris-piles-up-on-alaskas-shore/
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In a recent episode of Fox’s TV series Touch,
there was a mentioning of the debris floating to the California Coastline where
a man who was deeply impacted during the earthquake felt obligated to collect
all of these sentimental objects floating to the shore and post them online for
Japanese survivors to claim. The infusion of the impact of this debris into our
society is what we need to raise awareness of the public so that action can be
taken to prevent this large amount of trash from destroying our coastline and
coastlines all along the western beaches of North America.
