TITLE

There’s a God for That

SUBTITLE

Optimism in the Face of Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Meltdowns

AUTHOR

Joseph Honton

PUBLISHER

Frankalmoigne, Sebastopol

GENRE

Narrative nonfiction

BOOKSTORE SUBJECTS

TRAVEL / Asia / Japan

RELIGION / Shintoism

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace

CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION

1. Japan – Religious life and customs

2. Earthquakes – Japan

3. Tsunamis – Japan

4. Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (Japan) Accidents

5. Antinuclear movement

6. Ghost stories, Japanese

NOVELIST APPEAL

STORYLINE: Issue-oriented

PACE: Relaxed

TONE: Moving; Reflective

WRITING: Lyrical; Thoughtful; Richly detailed; Stylistically complex

PAGES / WORDS

xvi, 168pp, glossary

40,000 words

MAPS / ILLUSTRATIONS

12 maps, 2 line drawings

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER

2012940666

ISBN

978-0-9856423-0-3 (hardcover)

978-0-9856423-1-0 (pbk.)

978-0-9856423-2-7 (eBook)

978-0-9856423-3-4 (Kindle)

PRICE

US $28.00 (hardcover)

US $16.00 (pbk.)

US $11.99 (eBook)

US $9.99 (Kindle)

AVAILABLE FROM

Wholesale: Ingram

Retail: Frankalmoigne

PUBLICATION DATE

October 2012

There's a god for that

talk of “recycling” spent nuclear fuel, as if we could just clean it up and throw it back in the reactor; who talk of the abundance of Uranium on Earth, as if there is an inexhaustible supply just waiting to be scooped up; who dismiss the long-term consequences of nuclear waste, as if it were simply a short-term problem of finding a willing host for disposal; who gloss over the health problems of radioactive isotopes, as if the safe use of different isotopes in medical diagnostics, suggest that these isotopes are benign; who resort to the argument: “What else can we do?” as if no other form of non-fossil fuel energy could ever amount to much.

And today, as I watch the shaky camera trained on Fukushima Daiichi, hoping against hope that all will turn out well, I am enraged by the proponents who are touting the safety record of the nuclear industry.

Today, of all days! As if!

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