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Japan is being lined up for another Tsunami – Time for a transplant to Africa
An erupting volcanic island that is expanding off Japan could trigger a tsunami if its freshly-formed lava slopes collapse into the sea according to Fukashi Maeno, assistant professor of the Earthquake Research Institute at the University of Tokyo.
He said a rockfall of 12-million cubic metres of lava would generate a one metre tsunami that could travel faster than a bullet train, hitting the island of Chichijima – 130 kilometres away – in around 18 minutes. At this speed it would reach Japan in two hours.
In 2011, Japan’s northeast was ravaged by a huge tsunami which killed more than 18 000 people while submerging many parts of the country. And at the time author and investigative journalist, Wren Mast-Ingle suggested (www.mi5.co.za)that utilising the reparation costs to repatriate the Japanese economy to Africa was the only practical solution to a problem that while all experts agreed it could happen again, were not able to say how or when.
“Reparation costs still underway have been estimated in excess of US$250-billion and this would only be the direct costs. The withdrawal of Japanese investments around the globe; restructuring the cost of insurance and disruption to business from shipping to the motor industry will cost the world economy just as much again.” He points out.
“The world economy would buckle under another such disaster in Japan.”
He advocates relocating and rebuilding Japan in the South-western part of the African continent encompassing South Africa’s Northern Cape, the southern half of Namibia with the eastern boundaries extending halfway into Botswana.
The radical proposal mooted by Mast-Ingle, the author of a website that tracked world-wide trends leading to doomsday predictions for 2012, takes its reasoning from Albert Einstein’s quotation that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again with the expectancy of different results.
“The real tragedy will lie in not addressing the real issues here… firstly that irrespective of the measures taken half of Japan could still disappear in the next earthquake and tsunamic disaster. Neither the world economy on which everyone on this planet depends, nor the Japanese people would survive. And even if there were no cataclysmic event, the oceans are set to rise by more than a metre in the next 20 years – enough to displace nearly a third of the planet’s population and disrupt some 10 per cent of all economic activity.
“The area suggested for a ‘New Japan’ has all the right credentials – space, low population density, access to raw materials, a mean height above sea level in excess of 1000m and it is free of volcanoes, not earthquake prone, no cyclones or hurricanes and very little flooding. It would simply take the political will of Governments, the setting aside of ‘patriotic’ concepts and the willingness of people to envisage a more secure world in a different dispensation.” He says.
“An amazing statistic is that if about half of Japan’s 127-million people moved into this territory the population density would only be around 70 per sq km falling from well over 300 in Japan and rising from an average of about 15 locally.”
“However, the primary motivating reason for this approach has to be the changing climate of the planet. The acceleration and increasing severity of natural disasters, dislocated weather patterns and the growing threat of rising ocean levels must now prioritise our approach from reactive to proactive.
“World governments are extremely cumbersome when it comes to adopting an approach as radical as the one suggested even to the point of being accused by conspirators of considering only the rich and powerful when devising means to survive disasters.
- The World Bank report on climate change is an eye-opener and for your convenience go to:
- http://geoffgordon.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/152/ for the effect on insurance
- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090310104742.htm
