When Mother Nature is to Blame for Pollution
Posted by John Web in Education, tags: business, Education, environment, insuranceWhen most people think of corporate pollution they picture an evil CEO with Hollywood mustache who has no heart and does not care about the little guy. While this stereo type does exist, it is rarer than people might imagine. Much of the corporate pollution occurs when a natural disaster or other rare accident occur and have adverse effects on containment equipment that was not designed to withstand the shock of the accident or disaster. A global example of just this type of corporate pollution occurred when an earthquake and tsunami rocked the small country of Japan. The natural disaster damaged two of their nuclear power facilities and the damage allowed dangerous radiation to leak into the air. The Fukushima and Daiichi nuclear power plant accidents were not the fault of any one evil doer, the accidents were caused by an act of nature.

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