I've had a recurring thought today, among the many others jostling for my attention as I follow events in Japan: the earthquake there could have serious, substantial, unexpected long-term environmental consequences across the globe.
My thinking is this (and I'm not trying to claim that I'm the only or first one to think of this): regardless of the eventual outcome of the Fukishima nuclear plant crisis, what has already happened is surely enough to increase the resistance to (and cost of) adding more nuclear power generation capabilities to the grid in democratic countries. Just look at Germany, which just today shut down a number of its nuclear power plants.
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