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Shouts & Murmurs - “Tropical Rain Plots a Comeback?” and the other top L.A. news stories in 2013 so far: http://nyr.kr/12PRVSL
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Cartoon by Jack Ziegler. For more: http://nyr.kr/XEaPb4
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A festival in Syowa Village, where, as a result of depopulation, a majority of residents are elderly.
Two years ago today, Japan was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami that killed over fifteen thousand people and affected hundreds of thousands more. With a magnitude of 9.03, it is believed to be one of the most powerful earthquakes to hit Japan. The disaster also set off one of worst nuclear crises in history: after the earthquake and tsunami, large amounts of radioactive materials were released from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, contaminating the city for years to come.
Q. Sakamaki, a Japanese photographer, has been photographing the effects of the earthquake and tsunami since 2011. “The radiation is still leaking. The evacuated worry about their future—many might lose the chance to ever return. As a result, more than sixty per cent of the evacuated develop P.T.S.D., often leading them to commit suicide,” he says.
- Richa Sinha. Click-through for a gallery of photographs from the one-year anniversary: http://nyr.kr/Y508Oe
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What We Should Fear
Gary Marcus looks at “What Should We Be Worried About?”, a collection of essays by 150 top scientists and writers: “it may sound comforting to say that ‘the only thing we need to worry about is worry itself’ (as several contributors suggested), but anybody who has lived through Chernobyl or Fukushima knows otherwise… many of the essays are insightful, and bring attention to a wide range of challenges for which society is not yet adequately prepared…” http://nyr.kr/1084vun
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Scott Goldsmith: “This is a truck-driving class in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, at a technical school. This woman is on video, saying, ‘After I graduate from this class, I will not work for the gas companies after knowing what they do. This was my introduction to horizontal hydraulic fracturing, a.k.a. fracking. After doing extensive research on the subject, I was shocked to find out how horrible it was for our land, water and air. I was saddened by how the gas companies try to hide the damage they are doing not only to the environment but also to the communities they polarize… As fracking increases around the world, an increase in truck driving is one of many ways the extraction of natural gas from shale leads to extensive and growing climate change problem.”
Click-through for a slideshow looking at photographers and other visual artists who are challenging viewers to consider the dangers of inaction by capturing the effects of extreme weather and a warming world: http://nyr.kr/UCR7Jh
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2012: Top Ten Signs of a Warming World
Another year, another set of climate records. Here, Elizabeth Kolbert looks at the top ten signs you are living in a warming world, 2012 edition: http://nyr.kr/ZdDsOw
Photograph by Peter van Agtmael/Magnum.
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"Refusing to have a political conversation about climate change now is akin to the insistence that the aftermath of a mass shooting is somehow an improper moment to talk about America’s gun laws."
— Amy Davidson on the political response to Hurricane Sandy: http://nyr.kr/Sk1WOM(Source: newyorker.com)
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Elizabeth Kolbert on Hurricane Sandy and the reality of North American climate change: “Coming as it is just a week before Election Day, Sandy makes the fact that climate change has been entirely ignored during this campaign seem all the more grotesque.” Continue reading.
Photograph by Andrew Burton/Getty.
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Cartoon of the night by William Haefeli. For more: http://nyr.kr/RhFKBT
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A Saturday morning cartoon by Liam Francis Walsh. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/NVcjae
