Wildfires and the environment

To the Editor:

Since the Japan earthquake in 2011…and many other nuclear accidents. The climate change in all western United States and eastern Europe, is escalating in degrees of change.

Surrounding countries of Russia, in August, recorded actual radioactive isotopes at monitoring stations. But no one admits to causing the problem or can determine the source?

Fukushima for sure, sent radiation into and over the ocean.

Accident, but still happened. And now, right now, Japan is planning a release of heavy water or nuclear waste water…this time, on purpose…into the Pacific ocean.

The supposed narrative is this radioactive waste water, will dilute in the ocean and do no harm to humans? But we know past bomb tests and accidents, and dumping, did cause extreme harm.

But… since 2011, California, Oregon and Washington, all have horrific wildfire, severe drought, wind changes, sea life dying and rain deprivation from the past….as never seen before. Does Tritruim hurt small organic life in the sea? It’s molecules can bond to water from what I’ve read. It releases beta radiation during decay. (Friction, by the way, causes heat) Does it change the food chain or smaller eco systems? Does plant life suffer, from this rain? Are the trees susceptible to drying out from this small beta heat source?

If we as humans only consider what’s harmful to only us, only humans. We are in big trouble. Because what’s harmful to nature, what’s harmful to the smallest organic life, is harmful to our food, plants, our seafood, animals, and livelihoods.

In my opinion. No media is covering this issue, and science is worried about and asking the question. Is radiation waste the cause of the Western United States and Eastern Russia’s tundra fires? And can we help Japan, safely get rid of nuclear waste water soon? Give them help, in finding a solution, in which, this new scientific solution, of discarding radioactive waste water, would save the entire planet, over time. It would have to become the focus of the greatest minds and with the greatest, most global, moral value, to find a solution. It will take a very intelligent, set, of heros.

— Catherine Lair, Ukiah