On June 21, 2011 famed physicist Michio Kaku told CNN that Japanese officials have been lying throughout the nuclear crisis and still don't have control of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Kaku reports Fukushima is "a ticking time bomb":
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to piggyback on our earlier conversation b/c we (as a public) cannot accept/grasp complexity/emergence/unknowability we put people in charge in the position of lying to us, say making up evacuation plans for nyc in case of a nuke meltdown upstream. so how do we help people to come to terms with such realities/experiences and to take responsibility for their role in such risks as they are in the making and not just after the fact when scapegoating (not to excuse blatant thuggery when it's at hand)?
"no off switch"
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/christopher-fynsk/videos/task-technology-and-philosophy/
http://web.mac.com/timothyhyde/Site/Don_Ihde.html
@Dirk - we design an education system that cultivates people with integrity and who can cognize complexity and deal with it. We also change our lifestyles to oriented towards flourishing and mutuality rather than consumption and hyper-individualism. You know, the easy jobs... M.
@Dirk:
http://www.zcommunications.org/indian-point-by-john-raymond
thanks for the link, working on that monster and its ilk (along with a lifelong love of nature) is what drove my dad to help found environmental science studies in the SUNY system and to focus on impact analysis/statements and public participation.
and yes the 'easy' jobs are the most important and can't wait until we get IT all right/figured out, which is why Dewey remains central to the task at hand esp. on education.
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