Fukushima, Climate Change and War: Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse

[unhappycamper]

http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18180-fukushima-climate-change-war-horsemen-apocalypse



Fukushima, Climate Change and War: Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse
JANE STILLWATER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
Friday, 06 September 2013 14:10

Yeah, I know. The Bible says that there needs to be four horsemen involved if we are actually going to have a truly genuine Apocalypse -- so having only three horsemen arrive at our doorstep doesn't really count. Or does it? It certainly looks to me like only three lone riders, by working overtime and really putting their hearts and minds into the job, will actually be able to put it off all by themselves!

"And the greatest of these is..." war. Ever since mankind invented the machine gun, it's been all downhill for us human beings. From the trenches of World War I to the jungles of Rwanda and the halls of Columbine and Sandy Hook, war has been the curse of the modern world.

Oops, my bad. Most of the killing in Rwanda was done with machetes. And school shootings can't be considered real wars -- just kids using adult methods to solve problems. Plus World War I was supposed to be "The war to end all wars." Fat lot of good it did there.

In any case, War, our first Horseman of doom, has been doing pretty damn good for himself in the last 100 years, systematically killing hundreds of millions of people and polluting the Earth in the process. And yet people still keep falling for his sweet siren song, time after time -- and then always end up crashed to death on the rocks.

[Moliere]

1. How about Capitalism as your 4th?

I know it has its tentacles in the others but it's doing a damn fine job of destroying our society and world

[hunter]

2. War and fossil fuels are Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

On that scale Fukushima is a horsefly.

It bites, but it's not apocalyptic.

[Downwinder]

3. Fukushima can be the 2020 Olympic torch.

[pscot]

4. There's an army of them