Thursday, March 24, 2011

A Defecation Explanation



The United States may need its own poopy metaphoric explanations in the near future. 

After taking some of the biggest natural disaster hits of a lifetime in Japan, the country is dealt another awesome hand that comes in the form of the radiation leaking out of cracked reactors in Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which emergency crews are working around the clock to fix it. Fukushima doesn't seem that distant with the San Onofre Nuclear plant so close. But with so much horror and disaster around the uncertain of whether the seawater and boron mixtures that the emergency crews are using to core the reactors core down, and evacuations; how would it feel to be someone living in Fukushima or Japan trying to comprehend the massiveness of what is happening? How would you even begin to explain this to a child of Fukushima? 


That's why Japanese artist Kazuhiko Hachiya has made a cartoon to help ease the delicate small brains Japan. The video cartoon titled "Nuclear Boy" tells the story of Fukushima's reactor spill through a kids most relatable metaphoric substance, poop. The Power pant has a tummy ache, and the people of Japan are trying to make sure it does not diarrhea all over the whole country.

Although this is a solid way to help explain the crisis to younglings, is the coast of Southern California going to need the same video translated to english poop? Sciencedaily.com explains that this is a major wakeup call for the West Coast of the United States because one of the same magnitude is going to hit us soon in the next 30 years. Robert Yeats, a professor emeritus of geology at Oregon State University states, ""What you are seeing in Japan today is what you will also see in our future. Except they are better prepared than we are." It is abvious that Japan also came prepared with some nice poop videos too. 

Are the people of LA of San Diego going to need that same video? I could not imagine the destruction and devastation of Japan, happing in Southern California and I am sure the kids could not imagine it either.

So much more preparation and attention needs to be made in the coastal cities of California. Southern California needs to pay attention to the wake up calls and answer so we can keep poop and nuclear power plants out of the same video. We do not want San Onofre Nuclear Power plant producing explosive diarrhea on San Diego. 
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  1. Michael DeanApril 27, 2011 at 11:25 AM

    I can't get over the oddness of that device as a metaphor for the nuclear waste being leaked into the environment.

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