Articles By Brian Merchant
Brian Merchant is a founding editor of the Utopianist.. When he's not helming the Utopianist, he is TreeHugger's politics writer, contributes the Getting Samy Out of Burma column to GOOD.is, and freelances for the likes of Salon and Paste. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Japan’s Deadly Fukushima Hangover
A brief overview of the nation, one year after the Fukushima nuclear crisis began. This is part two in a series about the impacts of the Fukushima nuclear crisis. Start here for Part One. An ocean away, we can really only look at the dumbfounding images and try to imagine what a 8.9 earthquake, the tsunami that followed, and the disaster at Fukushima would do to an island nation with a population of 130 million and an economy the size of California’s. The nuclear crisis alone which took hair-raising, painstaking months to resolve, has left some still-deepening scars. Its impact has been massive, both on the economy and the social fabric of the nation.
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