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  • Tepco’s License to Kill: Dispersal of Radioactive Waste as Disaster Response

    Tepco’s License to Kill: Dispersal of Radioactive Waste as Disaster Response by John LaForge 652 words  Japan is set to start pumping millions of gallons of radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean this week from Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s (Tepco’s) devastated triple reactor meltdown site at Fukushima. This deliberate contamination of the public commons is

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  • No Free Lunch: The Hidden Costs of EVs

    No Free Lunch: The Hidden Costs of EVs by Mel Gurtov 998 words The Hidden Costs In his pathbreaking 1971 book, The Closing Circle, Barry Commoner proposed four laws of ecology: Everything is connected to everything else; Everything must go somewhere; Nature knows best; There is no such thing as a free lunch. We are inclined to forget

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  • The Map Is Not the Territory

    The Map Is Not the Territory by Tom H. Hastings 650 words Though he gave credit to another social scientist who expressed the concept, it was Alfred Korzybski who, in 1931, coined the expression, “The map is not the territory.” In other words, an idealized model of anything is not the thing.  Those of us who promote

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