Kohei Saito’s book Capital in the Anthropocene has become an unlikely hit among young people and is about to be translated into English. Intervju i Guardian hösten 2022
Karl Marx has long been criticized for his so-called ecological "Prometheanism"—an extreme commitment to industrialism, irrespective of natural limits. Author: Kohei Saito recently received a PhD in philosophy from Humboldt University, Berlin. In 2015 he was a guest researcher at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, where he helped edit Marx’s notebooks on natural science.
Author of surprise -- Kohei Saito -- hit Capital in the Anthropocene has developed his arguments in a new study of Karl Marx’s ecological thinking. Guardian 28.2.2023
"Crucial to imagining this alternative world is another strand of thinking in Marx’s notebooks: his interest in pre-capitalist, non-western societies. Contra to the ethnocentrism in some of his earlier work, in the end, Marx emphasised “the importance of learning” from these parts of the world “for the western societies”. Informed by this and his ecological studies, Marx’s idea of communism changed significantly, and was no longer growth-driven. “The pre-capitalist society had a unique way of communal regulations of land,” Saito says, “and they also imposed various rules on their production and consumption which realised a more steady-state of sustainable production.”
25 gånger har vi varit en hårsmån från kärnvapenkrig. Varje gång till följd av missförstånd eller tekniska haverier. Hur länge kan turen hålla i sig? ...
2019
By the end of this year Integriculture will start selling Space Salt, a dried version of cell culture media. For those who don’t nerd out on cellular agriculture, media is the liquid “food” that allows animal cells to rapidly proliferate to form meat. Space Salt is Integriculture’s (secret) proprietary blend of salt and food safe amino acids, which, when mixed with water, forms a DIY cell culture media. Hanyu wants to sell it to home enthusiasts who can use it to grow their own meat using Shojinmeat guide.
2020
While its focus is cultured meat, in 2020 Integriculture is also planning to sell its media for use in cosmetic applications, specifically as an anti-aging skincare product.
2021
In 2021, Integriculture will launch its first cell-based meat product: foie gras. Hanyu said that they decided to tackle foie gras as its first product because of its creamy texture, which means that they don’t have to emulate the texture and chew of meat. Since foie gras is already quite expensive, starting with that product will also presumably give consumers less of a sticker shock when they see its high price. Accordingly they plan to launch first in high-end restaurants in Japan.
In March of 2011, the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan rushed to Japan to help after the disastrous tsunami. Since then, many sailors from that ship have fallen ill, possibly as a result of exposure to radiation from the Fukushima nuclear meltdown. They will soon have their day in court.
"We hope China to dominate the denuclearization process of northeast Asia," Fujita said, referring to Beijing's historical friendly ties with Pyongyang. Since the DPJ came to power in September, ties between Tokyo and Washington have seen shaky ground. He
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"Of all the official events that have been created during the past 200 years of modernization, the peace ceremony has the greatest degree of moral seriousness. " Kenzaburo Oe, NYT 8/5 2010. [...] "what about the bombing victims who will fill the venue?
the deformation in a 3.3-metric-ton cylinder now stuck in the Monju reactor vessel in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, on Nov. 9. A major test of the reactor, shut down since a 1995 sodium leak, was planned for July 2011 -- already 1.5 months behind schedule. H
William Pentland, Forbes, Mar. 11 2011 - 7:23 pm Image by Hyougushi via Flickr The United States military and other nations are scrambling to support the government of Japan’s efforts to avoid a nuclear meltdown at a nuclear facility affected by the massi
12 March 2011, 10:20 GMT +2 / JST 17:20 A few minutes ago, Asahi TV: Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 Nuclear Power Plant: Sound of explosion between the reactor building and turbine building. White smoke. Workers are injured
The extent of the ongoing danger from the explosion at the nuclear plant in Fukushima, 170 miles northeast of Tokyo, is unclear. Authorities pumped seawater mixed with boron into the damaged nuclear reactor, a strategy nuclear engineering experts in the U
Sunday morning at 7am GMT+2 Chris Hogg BBC News, TokyoThere are now problems at the number three reactor - the concern is that it is overheating. They're trying to pump sea water through it at the moment. ... the plant's Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) said
0235 CET, 13 March 2011 Japanese authorities have informed the IAEA that Units 1, 2, and 4 at the Fukushima Daini retain off-site power. Daini Unit 3 is in a safe, cold shutdown, according to Japanese officials. -- CORRECTED An earlier version of this r
Gives backgroun, but is partly outdated, because: "unlike all of the other reactors in trouble, Unit 3 (of Fukushima I) has been using plutonium-based MOX (mixed oxide) fuel since September 10, 2010. (www.nirs.org)
J-M Matagne: "Now nobody will be able to say: "French citizens, vote for me, I will sell plants (and weapons) to Libya, a modern democratic country. I will sew a nuclear hem around the Mediterranean. I will sell Brazil a nuclear sub and Rafale airplanes.
Dan Plesch and Harald Heubaum, 13 March 2011 : "Last week, the world’s attention was suddenly torn from Libya to the developing nuclear crisis in Japan. But the events in Libya and Japan have one thing in common. Each case serves as a powerful reminder o
Those who falsely argue that nuclear power brings with it a calculable and acceptable risk because there is no alternative are guilty of cynical cruelty against humanity. They also accept the risk of a global economic collaps. Studies have shown that this
Frigyes Reisch påpekar att att de japanska myndigheterna har ljugit om Fukushimaolyckan. Den bör klassas som 7, inte som 4, på olycksskalan. Det beror på de enorma ekonomiska intressena. Världens kärnkraftsindustri är japansk.
A report by the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, ... , found that in the event of a core meltdown, a Mark 1's containment vessel has a 42% chance of failing—a whole lot closer to a coin flip than you want with something like a nuclear reactor
On Friday (18 March) Japanese engineers revealed that they may try to bury the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in sand and encase it in concrete to try to contain any radiation. ... It won't be easy, though, as a Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) offic
The largest wind farm operator in Japan, Eurus Energy with about 22% of all wind turbines in Japan, is a subsidiary of Tokyo Electric Company (TEPCO) which operates the Fukushima nuclear facility. Right now, it is likely the company is very happy about it
TOKYO, March 22, Kyodo Work to restore power and key cooling functions to the troubled reactors at the quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was marred Monday by smoke that rose from the buildings housing the No. 2 and No. 3 reactors, the plant
Washington, DC - March 23, 2011 – Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) expressed concern over recent reports that radioactivity from the ongoing Fukushima accident is present in the Japanese food supply. While all food contains radionuclides, wheth
By DAVID JOLLY and HIROKO TABUCHI Published: March 25, 2011 TOKYO — Japan’s effort to contain the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant suffered a setback, an official said on Friday, citing evidence that the reactor vessel of the No. 3 unit may
The organisation set up to verify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) has a global network of air samplers that monitor and trace the origin of around a dozen radionuclides, the radioactive elements released by atomic bomb blasts – and nuclea
I dag kommer nya, motstridiga uppgifter om reaktor 3 vid Fukushima kärnkraftverk. Det är möjligt att reaktortanken är allvarligt skadad och läcker radioaktiva ämnen. Dessutom har temperaturen stigit i den bränslebassäng som är gemensam för hela kärnkraftv
WNA 25 March: "Investigations are now underway into the unexpectedly high level of contamination in the water, particularly as the basement of the turbine building is not a recognised radiation area. One theory is that there is a leak from the reactor cir
We of Atomstopp International, NIRS, WISE, and like-minded organizations gathered in Linz, Austria, for the international symposium, “The Lie of the Peaceful Use of Atomic Energy - Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power Plants – Two Sides of the Same Coin” hel
RADIOACTIVE caesium and iodine has been deposited in Japan far from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, at levels that were considered highly contaminated after Chernobyl. Readings taken by the Japanese science ministry, MEXT, reveal high levels of caesi
".. the enormous stress put on the containment structures by the rising water. The more water in the structures, the more easily a large aftershock could rupture one of them."
"The Japanese government is considering extending the evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant because of high radiation levels. A 20-kilometre exclusion zone has been in place around the plant since a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit Ja
Here are 43 of some of the latest articles, reports, etc. about the JAPAN nuclear crisis from around the world...the situation seems to be critical with a possible nuclear meltdown already having occurred and further earthquakes in Northern Japan even tod
Several days after the crisis began on March 11, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the expanding threat of a nuclear catastrophe in Japan had changed his thinking on the safety of nuclear power. "It certainly caused me to reconsider the
Nytt om namn| 2011-08-16 Från Energimyndigheten meddelar man att Tomas Kåberger lämnar myndigheten för att istället bli styrelseordförande i nybildade Japan Renewable Energy Foundation. Där kommer Tomas Kåberger hjälpa japan med utveckling av förnybar energi. Det är Kåbergers erfarenhet från liknande frågor i Europa som gjort honom intressant för den japanska stiftelsen.
Tomas Kåberger 25.10.:" Den dåvarande japanska premiärministern Kan berättar i en intervju att kärnkraftbolagets anställda var på väg att lämna hela kraftverket dygnet efter olyckan. Premiärministern själv flög till kraftverket i helikopter för att förklara för personalen att det var uteslutet att de lämnade verket. Kan trodde att deras flykt skulle leda till spontan utrymning av Tokyo, en utrymning som i sig kunde få katastrofala följder. Denna rädsla var också skälet till att Japanska myndigheter inte ansåg det lämpligt att berätta allt och att ljuga om olyckans dignitet enligt den så kallade Ines-skalan. Verklighetsanknytningen kan också ifrågasättas när man nu talar om att få reaktorerna sluta läcka och vara i ”kallt, avstängt läge” före årsskiftet. Vad betyder det när man inte ens vet hur mycket av bränslet som ligger kvar i den trasiga inneslutningen eller kanske tiotals meter ner i berget?"
By HIROKO TABUCHI Published: December 16, 2011 TOKYO — Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda of Japan has declared an end to the world’s worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl, saying technicians have regained control of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. "But even before Mr. Noda’s announcement, some experts called the news premature, an attempt to quell continuing public anger over the accident and paper over remaining threats to the plant. The experts argue that the devastated plant remains vulnerable to large aftershocks, which could knock out the jury-rigged cooling system that helped workers bring the reactors into a relatively stable state known as a “cold shutdown.” "
Conditions at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant are far worse than its operator or the government has admitted, according to freelance journalist Tomohiko Suzuki, who spent more than a month working undercover at the power station. A book by Tomohiko Suzuki detailing many of his experiences at the plant and connections between yakuza crime syndicates and the nuclear industry, titled "Yakuza to genpatsu" (the yakuza and nuclear power), was published by Bungei Shunju on Dec. 15.
"China, as all the major powers today, has a multifaceted foreign policy, engaging with all parts of the world. The question is what its priorities are. I believe that priority number one is its relations with Japan and the two Koreas. China is strong, yes, but would be immeasurably stronger if it were to be part of a northeast Asian confederation."
New York Times By MARTIN FACKLER Published: January 21, 2012 Quotation: “If the government treated us like adults, there would be no need for Mamorukai,” said Sachiko Sato, a network founder. “Japan must build an entirely new food-monitoring system that we average people can really trust.”
Press Release 11.03.2012: "...the Fukushima catastrophe was more serious in terms of its releases of these two nuclides than Chernobyl. This is not surprising since there were three reactors breached at Fukushima to one at Chernobyl of equivalent capacity, said Busby. Total Fukushima releases exceeded 2 x 1019 Bq (20EBq) and were overall more than twice the releases from Chernobyl. The high population density of the area contaminated makes this a more serious issue for health than the Chernobyl releases. These findings support the early assessment made by Prof Busby in March and later in August 2011 and the many statements he made to the BBC, ITV, and Russia Today and show that those many pro nuclear experts who talked down the seriousness of the catastrophe were wrong."
By Yoshifumi Takemoto and Alan Katz - March 12, 2008 "From a windswept corner of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, Japan Steel Works Ltd. controls the fate of the global nuclear-energy renaissance. There stands the only plant in the world, a survivor of Allied bombing in World War II, capable of producing the central part of a nuclear reactor's containment vessel in a single piece, reducing the risk of a radiation leak."
Nuclear power will not go away, but its role may never be more than marginal, says Oliver Morton Mar 10th 2012 | from the print edition "But if nuclear power teaches one lesson, it is to doubt all stories of technological determinism. It is not the essential nature of a technology that matters but its capacity to fit into the social, political and economic conditions of the day."
By Monique Sené, physicist, Honorary Research Director at the CNRS, member of the Higher Committee for Transparency and Information on Nuclear Safety, and President of the GSIEN Raymond Sené, physicist, GSIEN member Dominique Leglu, physicist, editor-in-chief of Sciences et Avenir
Heart disease and depression are likely to claim more lives than radiation after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident, experts say By Katherine Harmon | March 2, 2012 |
Chris Busby: "...the late Professor John Gofman, a senior figure in the US Atomic Energy Commission until he saw what was happening and resigned, famously said: "the nuclear industry is waging a war against humanity." This war has now entered an endgame which will decide the survival of the human race. Not from sudden nuclear war. But from the on-going and incremental nuclear war which began with the releases to the biosphere in the 60s of all the atmospheric test fallout, and which has continued inexorably since then through Windscale, Kyshtym, 3-Mile Island, Chernobyl, Hanford, Sellafield, La Hague, Iraq and now Fukushima, accompanied by parallel increases in cancer rates and fertility loss to the human race.