Even the Tokyo Tower could not stand the shock and it is bent. The arrow pointed toward the sky of steel is now a sad symbol of technology failure.
With the Tokyo Tower is the illusion is bent to prevent disasters and protect wealth through. The whole world is witnessing the suffering dismay of the country's most advanced, most sophisticated techniques in earthquake and civil protection. The Tokyo Tower, 330 meters quell'antenna television, which sends signals from the network NHK, is not only the tower Eiffel dei giapponesi e la loro risposta all'Empire State Building. E' il simbolo di una nazione che "si piega ma non si spezza", che ha assorbito la tragedia unica nella storia umana di due olocausti nucleari. Da ieri il Giappone ha capito che non basta sapersi "piegare", la flessibilità delle nuove tecnologie di costruzione non lo ha salvato dalla tragedia. La modernità è sconfitta e molti abitanti della capitale d'istinto ieri sono fuggiti verso le piazze e i parchi antistanti il Palazzo imperiale: è l'unica zona di Tokyo dov'è proibito costruire grattacieli, e tutti gli edifici sono bassi. Per chiamare parenti e amici si sono gettati verso i vecchi telefoni a gettoni, i soli risparmiati dal grande black-out delle comunicazioni che per hours of dumb phones. They raided the bike shops: the oldest means of transport was the only one to bring them home in the chaos of the huge traffic jams and paralysis of trains and metro. All that Japan has built the most advanced, yesterday was the collapse: as nuclear power upon which a third of its electricity. It 'had to step in the U.S. Air Force by the U.S. military bases to supply emergency with the "coolant" after the cooling systems of nuclear reactor in Fukushima had failed. "Nuclear Emergency", proclaimed the government and another warning is added to the earthquake, despite decades of practice to ensure that the central atomic Japanese were earthquake-proof.
It 'a show in which he shall be dismayed by the friendly superpower on the other side of the ocean. America woke up in fear that the tsunami overwhelm Hawaii, then the West Coast. Entire cities in California have been evacuated but the giant waves made a victim in the sea in Crescent City, and damage in several coastal areas. But it is above the image of the Japanese disaster followed live by the Americans with bated breath, enhance the feeling of helplessness. "Japan has the most stringent seismic laws in the world - look at the New York Times - the same earthquake in any other country in the world, even the richest, avrebbe già fatto decine di migliaia di morti in poche ore". Gli americani lo sanno, neppure la California ha investito tanto quanto il Giappone: nei grattacieli costruiti per "piegarsi e non spezzarsi" assorbendo l'impatto; nelle dighe costiere anti-tsunami; nei sensori digitali che collegano perfino le abitazioni individuali col più vasto sistema elettronica di allerta. Di certo avrà limitato il bilancio delle vittime, ma è pur sempre una tragedia. Quando prende la parola Barack Obama promettendo "tutti gli aiuti che il governo giapponese ci sta chiedendo", l'America sente che questa tragedia è un segno di vulnerabilità globale. E' un altro "cigno nero", uno di quegli eventi che gli statistici definiscono "a bassissima probabilità, and high potential for harm. "
As the mortgage crisis that plunged the world into recession of 2008-2009. Again, the fear that America will gather on the horizon a perfect storm." The double shock earthquake Tsunami in Japan is the last of the shots in the global economy that have occurred suddenly in a few weeks, obscuring a horizon that seemed to turn to good. First there was the wave of anti-authoritarian revolutions in the Arab world, with its collateral impact on oil prices "that alone is already a heavy burden on growth" according to the Fed chairman Ben Bernanke. Ties to the high price of oil is the return of inflationary expectations. The most world's largest bond fund, Pimco, has sold its entire portfolio of Treasury bills, so it is clear that central banks should raise rates soon (in this case the old brutally Bot depreciate). Then came a surprise from China, its exports have grown only 2.4% over the last twelve months. There are fears that anti-inflation by the central bank of China begins to "bite", but if the locomotive slows Asian around the world will feel the consequences. The third shock came simultaneously by the rating agency Moody's downgraded the sovereign debt of Spain. "Europe becomes a time bomb," is the comment by Desmond Lachman of American Enterprise Institute in the Washington Post.
The last shock is the calamity which puts the knee in Japan, the world's third largest economy. A disaster paradoxically "amplified" by its modernity and wealth, because Japan as a country is advanced over-insured (unlike Indonesia), and then the damage is immediately reflected on the balance sheets of insurance companies worldwide. If the disaster in Kobe in 1995 cost 100 billion, 15 years after the impact can only be multiplied. The "beating of butterfly wings on the other side of the planet that creates a hurricane" is not an image of literature, is studying the theory of chaos mathematics. Three, four butterflies simultaneously, they can bend not only the Tokyo Tower but a world without walls or compartments, where the contagion of the crisis traveling at the speed of light.
Federico Rampini, the Republic
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