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When you really think about it, we are all involved
if we use electricity.
The other living beings on earth don't use electricity.
We can only say to them : I am sorry
In the past, Japanese people used to live within nature.
Nowadays it is very different. This changed a lot.
They had this spirit to live together with nature.
Since the Meiji period (1868-1912),
little by little, the materialistic relation to the world came in from the West.
And we started going over nature, transforming it.
Our lifestyle changed together with this vision of human becoming the absolute reference.
The nuclear has opened Pandora's box.
We finally opened what should not have been opened.
The atomic energy.
If only individuals could change their lifestyle even a little.
We would already change by just reducing half of our electrical consumption.
We worry in the summer about Osaka lacking electricity because of the missing operating power plants.
But in fact everything is fine and if we could show it,
the government and the electricity companies would not be able to say anything.
Does economy really create happiness for the people?
Maybe time has come to ask this question.
Lately, i often say we should start doing "minus calculation".
Japan has grown for years following and trying to overtake the United States.
For example, with the Shinkansen train, we put all our efforts going from Tokyo to Osaka in 3 hours.
Then, we were happy to say "we are the best in the world".
But maybe is it time now to say : Let's make 3 hours 10 minutes, or 3 hours 20 minutes.
Then electricity, sound pollution, danger, all would be considerably reduced.
Going 10 minutes slower, would it have a real impact on our lives?
When one thinks about it, it wouldn't be such a big thing, only 10 minutes.
This is surely difficult to change on the level of a country,
but it is possible on the individual level. Many people have started already.
Since the nuclear accident, many people rethink their lifestyle.
In the end, the transformation goes little by little But it starts here.