This \u201cOpen Letter\u201d<\/a>\u00a0below was drafted by Green Peace International and was sent to the 300 member organization of the international Tcktcktck global campaign to give to our world leaders.\u00a0World Team Now<\/a>\u00a0is about making team work, so we signed this open letter, along with many global activists, entertainers, peace keepers, and other NGO\u2019s. The common thread is clear when the majority of Non Governmental Organizations (NGO) signatories to this international letter are from Russia, the former Soviet Union, and Korea. World Team Now is a stand for renewable energy, this does not include nuclear energy, and we have made our stand clear over a year ago by signing\u00a0this national letter to President Obama<\/a>\u00a0and this recent\u00a0international letter for our World Leaders<\/a>. The ramifications of nuclear power live beyond these divisions of territories and human life \u2014 the use of nuclear power is a world issue. World Team Now contributed to Green Peace this summary paragraph:<\/p>\n It’s time to make a change, and World Team Now supports real renewable energy solutions. It is impossible to engineer for a \u201cblack swan\u201d (heavy tailed probability distribution) and there is also still the conundrum of radioactive wastes, high risk, and ridiculous expense with nuclear energy. Let\u2019s use our resources to combine the real renewable energy solutions; solar, wind, tidal, heat coolant geothermal together and \u201cteamed up\u201d to help us live in better balance with our resources, for global transformation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Suzanne Maxx Open letter to: World leaders<\/p>\n Subject: The risks of nuclear reactors<\/p>\n 7 March 2012<\/p>\n On behalf of the millions of people in the world who live with the threat of a nuclear disaster ruining\u00a0their lives, we are writing to ask you to recognize that now is the time to put people ahead of the\u00a0nuclear industry and hold the industry fully liable for the risks and damages of its disasters. It is\u00a0time to remove the risks of nuclear from people\u2019s lives and shift our economies to clean, safe\u00a0energy systems.<\/p>\n The earthquake and tsunami that devastated the east coast of Japan almost a year ago exposed\u00a0the serious failures in the system for regulating nuclear reactors and for protecting people from\u00a0nuclear accidents.<\/p>\n Tens of thousands died as a result of the destruction of the earthquake and tsunami. Hundreds of\u00a0thousands continue to suffer from their impacts and also from the nuclear disaster that followed.\u00a0Our thoughts remain with all those affected by these disasters.<\/p>\n The main lesson from the Fukushima nuclear disaster is that the significant failure of the\u00a0institutions that were supposed to protect people from such an accident in fact enabled it. Years\u00a0before the disaster, the risks of earthquakes and tsunamis were well known. Yet, the nuclear\u00a0industry and its regulators chose to ignore the dangers.<\/p>\n The first to suffer from their negligence were first responders such as plant workers and firefighters\u00a0who risked their health and even their lives to reduce the radiation risks for others.<\/p>\n Despite their efforts, more than 150,000 people have been forced to leave areas with the highest\u00a0levels of radiation \u2014 losing their homes, communities and livelihoods. Many more still live in\u00a0contaminated areas including pregnant women and children who are more vulnerable to the effects\u00a0of radiation exposure.<\/p>\n The overall costs of the Fukushima accident, including compensation and decommissioning the\u00a0Daiichi plant\u2019s six reactors, have been projected to reach $500 to $650 billion US dollars.\u00a0Japanese law makes a nuclear operator fully liable for all the costs of a disaster, but in practice the\u00a0Japanese people will end up paying almost all of the costs out of their taxes, not the nuclear\u00a0industry.<\/p>\n The mistakes in Japan are repeated in every country in the world with nuclear reactors. No reactor\u00a0is safe, and no regulatory system ensures safety. Millions of people are at risk, since at any time,\u00a0any reactor could have a serious accident. Furthermore, even after 60 years of nuclear power, no\u00a0one in the world can look us in the eye and say that a secure, long-term solution to storing\u00a0radioactive waste exists. This highly hazardous waste must be stored safely for hundreds of The nuclear industry often claims, incorrectly, that nuclear energy is needed to combat climate\u00a0change. On the contrary, expensive and dangerous nuclear power diverts investment from\u00a0renewable energy \u2014 the real solution to climate change.<\/p>\n Yet, in every country, decision makers and regulators are more concerned about protecting the\u00a0profits of the nuclear industry than in fulfilling their responsibility to protect people.<\/p>\n It is now time to put people first.<\/p>\n Signed<\/p>\n Kumi Naidoo, ED Greenpeace International Father Kyu-hyun Mun, Director, Majungmool for Life & Peace, Korea Just days before Japan marks the anniversary of March 11, 2011 tsunami and the nuclear disaster that followed, leaders from more than 50 organisations and prominent individuals from all around the world today released an open letter to world leaders calling for investments in safe, renewable energy in order to end to the threat of nuclear power and put protecting people ahead of protecting the nuclear industry. It is time to remove the risks of nuclear from people\u2019s lives and shift our economies to clean, safe energy systems. The earthquake and tsunami that devastated the east coast of Japan almost a year ago exposed the serious failures in the system for regulating nuclear reactors and for protecting people from nuclear accidents. The main lesson from the Fukushima nuclear disaster is that the significant failure of the institutions that were supposed to protect people from such an accident in fact enabled it. It’s time to make a change, and World Team Now supports real renewable energy solutions. It is impossible to engineer for a \u201cblack swan\u201d (heavy tailed probability distribution) and there is also still the conundrum of radioactive wastes, high risk, and ridiculous expense with nuclear energy. Let\u2019s use our resources to combine the real renewable energy solutions; solar, wind, tidal, heat coolant geothermal together and \u201cteamed up\u201d to help us live in better balance with our resources, for global transformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[36965682,8580178,1525993,3148110,57806994,1474372,20707175],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-greenpeaceinternational","tag-nuclearreactors","tag-renewableenergy","tag-worldleaders","tag-worldteamnow","tag-fukushima","tag-tcktcktck","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWorld Team Now
\nFounder\/President\/Chair<\/p>\n
\n
\nthousands of years.<\/p>\n
\nArchbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laurate, 1984
\nJosh Karliner, International Team Coordinator, Health Care Without Harm
\nJoanna Kerr, Chief Executive, Action Aid
\nErich Pica, President, Friends of the Earth
\nOliver Tickell, Founder, Kyoto2
\nHelen Kelly, President, Council of Trade Unions, New Zealand
\nKjeld Jakobsen, President, Insitituto para o Desenvovvimento da Cooperacao e Relacoes internationais
\nIngrid Srinath, Secretary General, CIVICUS
\nSenator Bob Brown, Leader, Green Party Australia
\nRichard Harvey, International Human Rights Lawyer
\nSuzanne Maxx, Founder\/President, World Team Now
\nArchbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, President, African Monitor
\nKelly Rigg, Founding Director, Varda Group
\nRosa Lizarde, Global Coordinator, Feminist Task Force of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty
\nSenator Doug Cameron, Senator from New South Wales, Labour Party Australia
\nRalph Nader, American political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney
\nMarina Silva, Brazilian environmentalist and politician (running in the 2010 Brazilian elections)
\nRobert Weissman, President, Public Citizen US-Organisation
\nJohn Hall, Former U.S. Congressman
\nEd Begley, Jr., Actor\/Activist, acting in famous US television series St. Elsewhere
\nMike Farrell, Actor\/Activist, best known for his role in the television series M*A*S*H (1975\u201383)
\nPeter Yarrow, Singer\/Activist, part of folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary
\nAlek sey Yablokov, Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO
\nAskhat Kayumov, Ecological center “Dront”, Russia
\nElena Stepanova, Russian Physicians for ecology
\nMilya Kabirova, Russian Nuclear Victims Organization \u201cAIGUL\u2019
\nAndrey Laletin, Friends of the Siberian Forests, Russia
\nAlexey Zimenko, Russian, Biodiversity Conservation Center
\nNatalia Mironova, Russian Movement for Nuclear Safety and Institute of Public Policy and Law, Russia
\nAndrey Talevlin, Russian Fund for Nature
\nFeodor Kronikovsky, Russian Ecological group “Taiga”
\nBoris Rezhabek, North-Caucasian Department of International Ecological Fund and Institute
\nNoosperical Research and Investigation, Russia
\nMikhail Piskunov, Russian Center for Assistance to Citizen Initiatives
\nAleksandr Zaytsev, Murmansk regional public organization “Kola Environmental Centre”, Russia
\nNikolai Zubov, Krasnoyarsk regional public organization \u00abKrasnoyarsk Regional Ecological Union\u00bb, Russia
\nAlexey Toropov, Siberian Ecological Agency, Russia
\nMs. Young-sun JI, Co-representative, Korea Federation of Environmental Movement (KFEM)
\nMr. Nam Boo-Won, National General Secretary, YMCA of Korea
\nMs. Mee-Jung Nam\/Ms. Young-Sook Park, Co-representatives, Korean Women’s Environmental Network
\nFather Hong-Pyo Park, Chairman, No Nukes Samchuck Coalition, Korea
\nProf. Ik-Jung Kim, Chairman, Gyung Ju Branch of Korea Federation of Environmental Movement, Korea
\nDr. Byungok Ahn, Head, Institute for Climate Change Action, Korea
\nMs. Younghee Kim, Representative Lawyer, Lawyers Association for Nuke-free Korea
\nDr. Do-Myung Paek, Chairman, Korean Doctors Association for Nuke-free society, Korea
\nProf. Moo-Young Choi, Co-Chairman, Korean Professors Association for Nuke-free and Energy, Korea
\nMr. Anselmo Lee, Managin-Director, Korea Human Rights Foundation, Korea<\/p>\n
\nMs. Sohee Im, Secretary General, Naummmunhwa Global Peace Activities, Korea
\nMr. Heon-Seok Lee, Representative, Energy Justice Actions, Korea
\nMr. Jin-Young Jeong, Chairman, Korean Teacher’s Organization for Ecological Education and Activity, Korea
\nMr. Yong-Hwi Kim, Secretary General, Cheondogyo Hanwool-Yeondae, Korea
\nMr. Seung-Jo Roh, Representative, Climate & Energy Center, Korea
\nMr. Kwang-soo Choi, Representative, Ecobuddha, Korea
\nAdenex, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Gonz\u00e1lez\/President, Spanish environmental NGO
\nEcologistas en Acci\u00f3n, Francisco Segura\/ Coordinator ,Spanish environmental NGO
\nBonnie Raitt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"