Deaths 1 cancer death attributed to radiation exposure by government panel.[4][5]
Non-fatal injuries 16 with physical injuries due to hydrogen explosions,[6] 2 workers taken to hospital with possible radiation burns[7]
I think this puts the incident squarely in the class of minor accidents that the media had a panic about. Unless you think it had a 50 % chance of wiping out japan and we were just lucky, it is irrelevant to the discussion of X-risk.
With CO2, it depends what you mean by buisness as usual. We don’t have 500 years of fossil fuels left, and we are already switching to renewables. I don’t think that the earth will become uninhabitable to technologically advanced human life. A In a scenario where humans are using air conditioners and desalinators to survive the 80C Norwegian deserts, the world is still “habitable”. (I don’t think it will get that bad, but I think humans would survive if it did. )
If the time it takes for a black ball to kill us is more than a few generations it’s really hard to plan around fixing it.
No those are the ones that are really easy to plan around, you have plenty of time to fix them. Its the ones that kill you instantly that are hard to plan around.
Quote from wikipedia on fukushima
I think this puts the incident squarely in the class of minor accidents that the media had a panic about. Unless you think it had a 50 % chance of wiping out japan and we were just lucky, it is irrelevant to the discussion of X-risk.
With CO2, it depends what you mean by buisness as usual. We don’t have 500 years of fossil fuels left, and we are already switching to renewables. I don’t think that the earth will become uninhabitable to technologically advanced human life. A In a scenario where humans are using air conditioners and desalinators to survive the 80C Norwegian deserts, the world is still “habitable”. (I don’t think it will get that bad, but I think humans would survive if it did. )
No those are the ones that are really easy to plan around, you have plenty of time to fix them. Its the ones that kill you instantly that are hard to plan around.