The following piece from Arun Gupta, a founding editor of The Indypendent newspaper, puts the disaster in Japan in context.

From Climate Solutions

By Arun Gupta

This century, barely out of the box, is already flush with mega-disasters: Hurricane Katrina, Haiti’s earthquake, the 2004 Boxing Day earthquake, the BP oil spill, Cyclone Nargis and the Sichuan earthquake in 2008, and now Japan’s earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdowns.