ryanmccauley38

Sorry to burst your bubble, mate, but Japan is an earthquake hotspot and has always been for as long as there have been islands for Japanese and pre-Japanese cultures to be there. Given the slow rate of geologic changes throughout the history of the planet, it will probably remain that way for as long as you can even imagine, and will probably only be different for people living in a future where our current world-maps are more ancient than OUR most ancient human artefacts.
 
Also, there's probably more truth in the statement that the US is freaking out because they've not much else to worry about simply because most of us are NOT nuclear physicists. For one, I'd be a lot more sceptical about those bits you shared about South Korea and China's opinions on the matter; for one, 90% of SK-citizens found JP sourced food to be unsafe? Are you insinuating that 90% of South Koreans are adequate nuclear physicists, toxicologists, or anything specifically related to the subject of irradiated foodstuffs? Now, I've never been to SK, but for one, I know a fair amount of people from there and have tried to learn a thing or two about their culture and society. With only two major cities in the country, I find it LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE for such a high statistic to be of any relevance to anything. Would you give a shit if a stat said that 100% of rednecks say that black people aren't people? What could make you think that a SK denizen from the more rural portions of the country knows much of anything on the subject off-handedly? And I've been to JP SINCE the Fukushima event, and reality isn't in shambles there. People still eat seafood like it's nobody's business, and there weren't mutants crawling out of the sewers trying to exact their revenge on an impotent Abe government. In fact, I pretty much ate nothing BUT seafood, and I'm not dead yet from the untold amounts of radioactive waste now undoubtedly coursing through my entire system. Plus, when AU is busy selling their land to the Chinese because they've not been able to manage their agricultural businesses out there properly, what's to say that the food from there is any better? And it was only last year that there was that toxic baby-formula coming out of NZ. What do any of us know just from reading a few articles on the web. Sure you may think you've read a lot more than most people, but still, those ONLY represent someone else's opinion. Read some scientific theses and wow us all with your supreme grasp on all the major points of nuclear studies beforehand next time, please, before just citing a few percentages of commoner opinions and calling it evidence.
 
As for China... just look up a little about both their history with JP and how foreign relations have gone between the two nations over the centuries, AND look up their history with environmental concerns. You'll not be able to take any of what you quoted seriously if you only knew. I could expand, but seriously, there's no point (zero) in taking official Chinese statements about environmental concerns, ESPECIALLY if it's directed towards Japan. Seriously.
 
Regarding OUR side of the pond, just because there are known increases in radiation along the coasts, doesn't mean that it's due to Fukushima. If you're trying to talk about serious science, you should know that correlation does not mean causation. Remember, literally EVERYTHING is radioactive. Put a Geiger counter next to a rock you found in your yard, it will still make noise. Put it to a banana peel and it will beep harder. Who knows why or what is causing radiation to increase anywhere. Maybe climate change issues make our planet's surface more susceptible to radiation bombardment from the entire cosmos around our thin-ass atmosphere. Maybe a lot of composting hippies have started burying banana peels on the beaches to promote healthy palm growth. Whatever the case is, we just don't know.
 
I wouldn't be so quick to accuse folk of "speak[ing] out of your ass" when citing material that could just as easily be others speaking out of THEIR arses.

Sorry to burst your bubble, mate, but Japan is an earthquake hotspot and has always been for as long as there have been islands for Japanese and pre-Japanese cultures to be there. Given the slow rate of geologic changes throughout the history of the planet, it will probably remain that way for as long as you can even imagine, and will probably only be different for people living in a future where our current world-maps are more ancient than OUR most ancient human artefacts.
 
Also, there's probably more truth in the statement that the US is freaking out because they've not much else to worry about simply because most of us are NOT nuclear physicists. For one, I'd be a lot more sceptical about those bits you shared about South Korea and China's opinions on the matter; for one, 90% of SK-citizens found JP sourced food to be unsafe? Are you insinuating that 90% of South Koreans are adequate nuclear physicists, toxicologists, or anything specifically related to the subject of irradiated foodstuffs? Now, I've never been to SK, but for one, I know a fair amount of people from there and have tried to learn a thing or two about their culture and society. With only two major cities in the country, I find it LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE for such a high statistic to be of any relevance to anything. Would you give a shit if a stat said that 100% of rednecks say that black people aren't people? What could make you think that a SK denizen from the more rural portions of the country knows much of anything on the subject off-handedly? And I've been to JP SINCE the Fukushima event, and reality isn't in shambles there. People still eat seafood like it's nobody's business, and there weren't mutants crawling out of the sewers trying to exact their revenge on an impotent Abe government. In fact, I pretty much ate nothing BUT seafood, and I'm not dead yet from the untold amounts of radioactive waste now undoubtedly coursing through my entire system. Plus, when AU is busy selling their land to the Chinese because they've not been able to manage their agricultural businesses out there properly, what's to say that the food from there is any better? And it was only last year that there was that toxic baby-formula coming out of NZ. What do any of us know just from reading a few articles on the web. Sure you may think you've read a lot more than most people, but still, those ONLY represent someone else's opinion. Read some scientific theses and wow us all with your supreme grasp on all the major points of nuclear studies beforehand next time, please, before just citing a few percentages of commoner opinions and calling it evidence.
 
As for China... just look up a little about both their history with JP and how foreign relations have gone between the two nations over the centuries, AND look up their history with environmental concerns. You'll not be able to take any of what you quoted seriously if you only knew. I could expand, but seriously, there's no point (zero) in taking official Chinese statements about environmental concerns, ESPECIALLY if it's directed towards Japan. Seriously.
 
Regarding OUR side of the pond, just because there are known increases in radiation along the coasts, doesn't mean that it's due to Fukushima. If you're trying to talk about serious science, you should know that correlation does not mean causation. Remember, literally EVERYTHING is radioactive. Put a Geiger counter next to a rock you found in your yard, it will still make noise. Put it to a banana peel and it will beep harder. Who knows why or what is causing radiation to increase anywhere. Maybe climate change issues make our planet's surface more susceptible to radiation bombardment from the entire cosmos around our thin-ass atmosphere. Maybe a lot of composting hippies have started burying banana peels on the beaches to promote healthy palm growth. Whatever the case is, we just don't know.
 
I wouldn't be so quick to accuse folk of "speak[ing] out of your ass" when citing material that could just as easily be others speaking out of THEIR arses.