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> That in damaging the land and contaminating the air we were harming the people. Of course I'd known that forever – since the dense smog of Los Angeles, since partly dispelled by good legislation and industrial decline – was a presence in my youth. But it hit me with a vividness that was new.
> Speaking of California, San Francisco legend #CleveJones has called for a week of action...
#公害 #CommonsDamage
bsmall24d ago

> ... I suddenly felt in a new way how the land and the people aren't separate, and how too many people on too many parts of that land are being sickened by breathing in industrial pollution,

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/it-makes-you-sick-the-attacks-on-health-healthcare-and-care/

#RebeccaSolnit #身土不二　#LandAndFleshAreOne #公害 #IndustrialPollution #CommonsDamage

It Makes You Sick: The Attacks on Health, Healthcare, and Care

When I was young I believed that the ideas I needed to grasp were complicated fact-dense new ones, and maybe back then I did need to take in more data. As I've gotten older, I've come to realize that a lot of the important things are not just facts to

Meditations in an Emergency
bs2Oct 31, 2023

From Minanata we learned of the need to regulate ______________.

#Minamata #MinamataDisease #Pollution #CommonsDamage

Bombs
0%
Manganese
0%
Mercury
66.7%
Corporations
33.3%
Poll ended at .
bs2Sep 29, 2023

New Court Ruling for Minamata Disease Victims
- https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15015862
- https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15016119

#MinamataDisease #MinamataCourtCase #MinamataDiseaseRuling #Japan #PollutionIssues #CommonsDamage #公害

EDITORIAL: All Minamata victims should receive relief as new ruling shows | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

The latest court ruling on a legal case concerning the government’s relief program for Minamata disease patients challenges the fundamental integrity of the relief system and unequivocally underscores its inadequacy.

The Asahi Shimbun
Show threadBrian SmallJul 12, 2023

.> The mercury poisoning “incident” in Minamata has been grandly pronounced resolved at least four times since the pollution began in 1932 and Minamata disease was officially recognized in 1956.2 In 1959 the Chisso Corporation paid compensation to fishing cooperatives and “sympathy payments” to patients that required them to renounce all future claims against the company. It did not accept responsibility for the disease. At the same time, it also installed a “Cyclator” to purify its wastewater, without announcing that the Cyclator did not remove mercury. At a ceremony at the end of 1959, Chisso’s president publicly drank a glass of water from the Cyclator, without announcing that the wastewater from the acetaldehyde plant, which contained mercury, was not being run through the Cyclator. An eerily similar performance took place on March 24, 2011 when Tokyo’s Governor Ishihara Shintarō drank a glass of tap water on national television to “prove” that it was safe from radioactive contamination. https://apjjf.org/2012/10/11/Timothy-S.-George/3715/article.html

#PRpollutionCampaigns #MinamataDisease #MInamataAndFukushima #TimGeorge #TimothyGeorge #CommonsDamage #公害 #PollutionPRcampaigns #PollutionPR #PollutionPropaganda #PollutionSpectacles

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Fukushima in Light of Minamata

Fukushima in Light of Minamata Timothy S. George Abstract: The mercury discharged into the sea by the Chisso factory in Minamata, and the radiation released by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power p

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
bs2Nov 15, 2022
I was in #Toroku over the weekend learning with Asia Arsenic Network NGO, Miyazaki Prefecture's Forestry Dept, and Minami Kyushu University. The arsenic mine and kilnes that sickened and killed people is considered pollution (#公害 or #CommonsDamage). One speaker pointed out that when damage reaches beyond the workplace they are chalked up to #pollution, until then they are chalked up to #OccupationalHazards. He made me re-read a page of #Galeano's #ChildrenOfTheDays to remember #Ramazzini.
bs2Sep 14, 2022
#宇井純 さんの #公害の原則 4つ
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#アイリーンスミス #アイリーン美緒子スミス さんの #手口 10つ
#公害 #CommonsDamage patterns
http://ankei.jp/yuji/?n=1662
歴史に学ぶ）アイリーン・スミスさんが考えた水俣と福島に共通する１０の手口 - 安渓遊地

bs2Sep 14, 2022
> おそらく、最初に公害という言葉を作った人は、英法に言うパブリックニューサンス（#PublicNuisance）の訳語のつもりであったのであろう。……今日では、公害という言葉は、英法に言うパブリックニューサンスよりもはるかに包括的な内容のものとなっている。（庄司光・宮本憲一「恐るべき公害」岩波新書206頁）
...
> 能率をあげる思想が公害の元ではなかろうか。（宇井純「公害原論」1、亜紀書房63頁）
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> 公害対策の最も根本的なものは原因の除去であって補償ではない。（#宇井純「公害原論」1、亜紀書房243頁）
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/maxikon2006/e/7da910d6e0529a63bfdbbe5ea2fef312
#資源の呪い と #公害 を一緒に考えたい。 #土呂久 #水俣 #Nauru #Potosi #Potosí
#CommonsDamage patterns
公害 - マキペディア（発行人・牧野紀之）

参考01、おそらく、最初に公害という言葉を作った人は、英法に言うパブリックニューサンス（publicnuisance）の訳語のつもりであったのであろう。……今日では、公害という言葉は、英法に言うパブリックニューサンスよりもはるかに包括的な内容のものとなっている。（庄司光・宮本憲一「恐るべき公害」岩波新書206頁）02、公害問題というのは差別の1形態であります。……実際に先ず公害の被害者というものは差別されます。……差別というものは全生活的なものでありまして、……被害者は常に被害を体全体で受けている。……差別の中身はどういうものだと聞かれて出来る唯一の答えは、「お前と俺と場所を入れ替えよう」ということしか出来ない。（宇井純「公害原論」1、亜紀書房36-9頁）03、能率をあげる思想が公害の元ではなかろうか。（...公害

goo blog
bs2Jul 13, 2022
> The #AsiaArsenicNetwork (#AAN 2006, 4) documented the case of #KiemonSato’s family that lived only 100m from a kiln. All seven members suffered similar symptoms, including blackened skin and bad coughs. Five members died between 1930 and 1931. Another died in 1937, and yet another in 1951, all of them still rather young.
#Toroku on #EJAtlas #CommonsDamage #BampenChaiyarak
https://ejatlas.org/conflict/toroku-miyazaki-prefecture-japan
Toroku mine, arsenic pollution, Miyazaki prefecture, Japan | EJAtlas

In the mountain hamlet of Toroku, Miyazaki prefecture, there was arsenic pollution for many decades. After years of complaints and a court case, those plaintiffs who were still alive got a small compensation agreement in 1990.

Environmental Justice Atlas
bs2Jul 13, 2022
#MountainTopRemoval explained on the #ILoveMountains site. An hour-long conversation about the environment, pollution as #公害 #CommonsDamage got me to remember Appalachia. I used to see stuff from this organization a lot but it's been years. A researcher in Japan seemed to be under the impression that only #China did stuff like this in #Indonesia. It's been a while but I've read about #MultiNationalCorporations committing environmental crimes for #Bauxite profits.
http://ilovemountains.org/resources
Learn more about mountaintop removal coal mining

Mountaintop removal is a relatively new type of coal mining that began in Appalachia in the 1970s as an extension of conventional strip mining techniques. Primarily, mountaintop removal is occurring in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee. Coal companies in Appalachia are increasingly using this method because it allows for almost complete recovery of coal seams while reducing the number of workers required to a fraction of what conventional methods require.

iLoveMountains.org