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16-Mar-2011
As more detailed news reaches Iran about the disastrous Japan earthquake on March 11, the most powerful in the last century, and about the resultant tsunami that has devastated the Sendai area in northeastern Japan, the Iranian people -- especially those living in Bushehr, the sight of the nuclear power-plant-to-be -- must be feeling not merely a sense of sadness for the people of Japan in these days of severe hardship and suffering. As the people of Bushehr in particular start digesting the implications for them and start to find out about more details of the unfolding disaster in Japan, they certainly will be reflecting on their own situation and the possible threats directed at them by the nuclear power plant that has yet to go live, in their port city on Persian Gulf.
Bushehr residents must be in deep anxiety over the existence of this nuclear plant in their city, built by a government that has demonstrated its absolute disregard for people's lives, a government lacking any and all accountability. They must be dreading the certain oncoming disaster should the nuclear plant start its operations. They know that they too regularly feel the earth shake under their feet since southern Iran often experiences earthquakes. They know that the Iranian government is no Japanese government. Safety standards? What fantasy! Earthquakes strengths the power plant is supposed to have been built to withstand? How about, earthquake strengths the plant is actually able to withstand? Evacuation plans? The residents of Bushehr must surely be surveying the available roads leaving the city, and most likely shaking their heads in despair, over the disrepair of the transportation possibilities and the sacristy of available choices of possible refuge.
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The Iranian people have a right to demand accountability for a series of issues involved with nuclear energy production in Iran: Where are the records of seismological surveys carried out to determine how near or far major fault lines lie from the Bushehr power plant? What are the safety regulations put in place? What about the environmental-impact studies for the 'best-case' scenarios (as in, where to store the nuclear waste, and how)? Has any thinking gone into plans for a worst-case scenario, for the necessary evacuations, for containment of the radiation contamination, and on and on?
Equally important, do the people in Iran have any oversight rights over any of the nuclear activities conducted by the government? Of course not. As well, is there a reliable infrastructure available to help rebuild lives in a worst-case scenario? Or, is Bushehr as a city, much like Chernobyl and vicinity, an expendable entity? In other words, are the ruling gentlemen in Tehran - and all the capitals signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty - offering the people of Bushehr, as guarantees for their safety, mere luck and divine protection?
Iran rests on many large and active fault lines; you can see seismicity map of Iran at: (Seismic Hazard Assessment of Iran; by B. Tavakoli and M. Ghafory-Ashtiany). As shown in the seismicity map, southern regions of Iran are regions of regular tectonic movements.
Of the major earthquakes that occur in Iran, a good many are stronger than magnitude 6.5 on the Richter scale, from which point on major damage and destruction increase exponentially. Here are some casualty figures from recent major earthquakes in Iran, since 1972:
· Dec. 26, 2003: Southeastern Iran, Bam, magnitude 6.5; 26,000 killed
· June 22, 2002: Northwestern Iran in the Qazvin province, magnitude 6; 500 killed (included for a comparative frame)
· May 10, 1997: Northern Iran near Afghanistan, magnitude 7.1; 1,500 died
· June 21, 1990: Northwest Iran around Tabas, magnitude 7.3-7.7; 50,000 killed
· Sept. 16, 1978: Northeast Iran, magnitude 7.7; 25,000 killed
· April 10, 1972: Southern Iran near Ghir Karzin, magnitude 7.1; 5,374 killed
These casualty figures are very high as it is. In each case, additional thousands or tens of thousands more suffered also months and years of dislocation and loss of livelihoods, for which they were never compensated, nor were they helped in any way in rebuilding their lives. Now, imagine the (at least tenfold) additional casualties and displaced if any such earthquake is accompanied by the radiation contamination associated with the melt down of a nuclear reactor.
We cannot even imagine what nightmare we can face if a disaster of the same magnitude as that near Sendai occurred in Bushehr. We can, however, state categorically that not even a shade of Japanese building standards is likely to have been enforced or followed in the construction of Bushehr power plant, and we know for a fact that not a hundredth of Japanese transportation infrastructure exists in Iran, and know for a certainty that there will be little if any assistance provided the stricken people by the Iranian government.
We would therefore be right to question everything that has anything to do with nuclear activities in Iran. When it comes to nuclear power, transparency and accountability are essential. IAEA inspections are all fine and good for people living all the way on the other side of the globe. Inside Iran, however, and especially people living in the same city as a power plant need to have a guaranteed right of citizens' groups - consisting of independent scientists, environmental activists, citizens' direct representatives, etc. - to carry out on-demand inspections of nuclear facilities, the right to review their books, regulations, safety measures, evacuation plans, and on and on. Transparency and open accountability are absolutely necessary exactly because nuclear activities can, in a variety of ways, cause very serious harm to hundreds of thousands of people and their entire environment and adjacent ecosystems.
In Iran, however, there is no accountability for anything the government does. As the world learned in the wake of the 2009 electoral coup in Iran, and in the course of the development of the movement by the Iranian people for the seven to eight months that followed (a movement which has now resumed), the Iranian government does not recognize any rights on the part of the people. The government's attitude toward the people is exactly as a king's would have been in feudal Europe some eight hundred years ago, except that the government of Iran holds such antiquated attitudes towards 'its own' people, in a highly complex modern society in late capitalism.
Freedom of assembly and to peacefully gather in public spaces that rightfully belong to people, freedom of expression, freedom to organize independent labor unions, independent women's organizations or student organizations -- these are luxurious terms in the Iranian context. People do not even have freedom from being tortured in secret illegal detention centers, no freedom from being raped (or threatened to), either by humans or objects if the interrogators deem it necessary to 'break' a prisoner; no freedom for parents to hold funerals for their children if those children are killed by the security forces of the regime; no freedom to have the graves of their children left alone by regime thugs who regularly vandalize those graves; and in some cases when the youth is politically imprisoned en-masse and are then mass-murdered in thousands, illegally and in an act of 'ideological cleansing', as happened in 1988, thousands have been denied the right to even have a known grave and are buried in mass graves (see, Khavaran).
This situation clearly does not allow for a system in which the citizens can keep a vigilant eye on the government's handling of nuclear-powered energy production. Should any disasters occur (that is, when a disaster does occur), the government is guaranteed to act in the least responsive manner, to cover up maximally, and to shun as many responsibilities as it can, leaving the citizens to bear the lethal costs of a nuclear disaster on their own.
It is therefore our duty to stand on the side of the wellbeing of the Iranian people and unambiguously oppose any nuclear energy development in Iran carried out by the current unaccountable government.
Those who, like the Islamic regime in Iran, insist that pursuing nuclear power is an automatic right, must also be prepared to bear the responsibility, and be ready to be held accountable for any adverse outcome of the nuclear activities of the Iranian government; particularly when the nuclear facilities are built near densely populated areas, and most definitely if the densely populated areas are sitting on top of active tectonic plates, as is the case with Bushehr power plant.
Lacking transparent accountability for the preparations that have occurred so far as and the plans for future full operations of Bushehr's nuclear power plant, people have a legitimate right to demand a halt to all activities that could lead to large numbers of fatalities and enormous health threats for hundreds of thousands of people.
On the other hand, Iran does have access to vast and endless amounts of alternative sources of energy: solar and wind. The right engineers can do the necessary calculations, but it seems clear that cultivating solar panel farms or windmill farms, can easily match the energy produced by wasteful and radioactive-waste-producing nuclear power plants. If China can develop solar panels, why not Iranian engineers?
It is time for the left in the west to reorient itself toward solidarity with the people of Iran and think and act independently of the power calculations of the ruling classes both in the west and the ruling class in Iran.
It is time to stand in unambiguous solidarity with the people of Iran and their wellbeing. To do that as regards the nuclear issue, it is necessary to redefine the issue and to bring to it those missing social dimensions deliberately kept out by western powers as well as by the Iranian regime. It is time to approach the nuclear issue from a principled stance, that of the people's interests, and to refuse to accept the terms of the debate presented to us by the western powers or by the militarist theocracy that has taken complete control of the Iranian state apparatuses and is suffocating the Iranian people.
Reza Fiyouzat can be reached at: rfiyouzat@yahoo.com
He keeps a blog at: //revolutionaryflowerpot.blogspot.com
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Nuclear is not the Solution for Anyone.
by amirparvizforsecularmonarchy on Mon Apr 11, 2011 08:08 PM PDTA melt down threatens everyone in the world!
Hass you might need this
by vildemose on Fri Mar 18, 2011 08:04 PM PDTby vildemose on Fri Mar 18, 2011 07:51 PM PDT
Here is an employment ad for the Nuclear Apologists and general baggerdom.
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This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to support nuclear power and the world community of activists who know that we cannot live without nuclear energy.
Workers will be paid in the form of life insurance for loved ones or cash up front--your preference. All meals included. Free airfare. Extra work up to the legal limit and then retire comfortably.
All of our workers will be given lead-threaded suits, breathing apparatus, and full-body monitors.
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FACTS
by hass on Fri Mar 18, 2011 03:03 PM PDTChernobyl and Bushehr have nothing in common.
//www.voanews.com/english/news/a-13-2009-06-09-voa55-68818137.html
Senior nuclear scientist Upendra Rohatgi at the U.S. government's Brookhaven National Labs in New York is highly familiar with the Russian reactor.
"The VVER-1000 is the latest Russian design, which is equal to western designs for pressurized water reactors. They all have the same safety systems, VVER and the western side [designs], and they all have very good containment systems," he said.
Another important design criteria for nuclear reactors, especially in countries such as Iran, is resistance to earthquakes. Muhammad Sahimi at the University of Southern California says this was carefully considered.
"The first thing the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran did was extensive studies in terms of the safety of a nuclear reactor from the perspective of earthquakes. Usually, a nuclear reactor is built in an area where the possibility of a major earthquake is very small. As far as I know, there is no major active fault in southern Iran where the Bushehr reactor has been built," he said.
The only nukes mullahs should get are those dropped on them from
by Everybody Loves Somebody ... on Thu Mar 17, 2011 06:08 PM PDT30 thousand feet high by B1 Bombers!
STUPID IDEA TO LET MULLAHS RUN ANYTHING, LOOK AT THE ECONOMY
by amirparvizforsecularmonarchy on Thu Mar 17, 2011 03:41 PM PDTTHESE MOLLAHS WON'T LEAVE IRAN UNTL THERE IS ONE MORE HOUSE LEFT THAT CAN BE ROBBED. THEY WANT TO CONTROL IT ALL AND THEY ARE TAKING NO PRISONERS.
SO GOOD LUCK IRAN IN YOUR PEACEFUL REVOLUTION, BUT YOU WILL GET NO WHERE UNTIL YOU GET SERIOUS ENOUGH ABOUT JUST HOW SCREWED YOU REALLY ARE,
YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO BE WILLING TO KILL MORE THAN 500,000 PEOPLE TO END MULLOCRACY IN IRAN, BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT FIXABLE, REHABILTATION DOES NOT WORK WITH PURE EVIL.
GOODLUCK IN DEFENDING YOUR FREEDOM BY REBELLING FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR DIGNITY, TO BE ABLE TO BE FREE.
Dear Mohammad Alireza
by AMIR1973 on Thu Mar 17, 2011 01:37 PM PDTThis "hass" is a constant presence on many websites vomiting up propaganda that extols the many "achievements" of the Islamic Republic. He also states that poverty in the IRI is exaggerated and not that much of a problem, etc etc. For IRI Groupies like this, it is easy to live in the comfort and security West and praise an anti-Western terrorist regime that has executed tens of thousands of Iranians and raped and tortured many more. The benefits of democracy are that one can propagandize on behalf of undemocratic, mass murdering regimes. It's a nice arrangement for them. Regards.
Hysterical Hass
by Mohammad Alireza on Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:28 AM PDTYour hysterical response in support of nuclear energy given what is going on in Japan would seem to warrant you needing to drop the H from your name.
I suggest everyone to
by vildemose on Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:25 AM PDTI suggest everyone to follow this blog. There are very knowledgable people commenting on the thread.
//www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/17/957242/-Japan-Nuclear-Disaster:-Mothership-
comment from dailykos:
by vildemose on Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:22 AM PDT""
These Cesium, Strontium, Plutonium particles are blowing across the Pacific and some will reach California. They will land on the ground and some will end up in the food chain. What scientists need to research is how much Cesium, Strontium, or Plutonium does it take to cause cancer once you've inhaled or ingested it. I don't think they really know. One study showed a millionth of a gram of Plutonium is a carcinogenic dose. There's probably tons of Plutonium being released in Japan. A power plant makes 500lbs a year. These alpha/beta emitters like Cesium, strontium and plutonium are not harmful unless you inhale or ingest them. The Nuclear Industry mostly concentrates on the dangers of gamma radiation and not so much on the dangers of inhaling/ingesting alpha and beta emitters. This is because cancers may not arise for decades if you inhale some Cesium. Hard to blame the cancer on the nuclear power industry due to the latent period of carcinogenicity.""
//www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/17/957242/-Japan-Nuclear-Disaster:-Mothership-
Plume projection for U.S.
by vildemose on Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:17 AM PDTPlume projection for U.S.
//www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/16/science/plume-graphic.html?ref=scienceNY Times Plume project from Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Org
It shows that there will be radiation hitting California by Friday March 18. We just do not know how much.
But to be clear all government sources are claiming it will be a negligible amount of radiation.
Japense people don't trust their government:
by vildemose on Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:15 AM PDT""Solar is civil defense. Video of my small scale solar experiments at solarray ""
//www.tokyohackerspace.org/
Headline of items from
by vildemose on Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:10 AM PDTHeadline of items from German newspaper ticker:
[Times are given both in Central European Time, CET = UTC+1 = EDT+5, and U.S. Eastern Daylight Time, EDT]
13:02 CET / 8:02 EDT: Russia completes air evacuation of over 50 of its citizens
12:53 / 7:53: Liberal Democratic Party chairman suggests Japan must rethink its nuclear energy policy
12:29 / 7:29: Army firefighting vehicles deployed
12:11 / 7:11: Warning: possible large-scale power blackout in Tokyo (in the night between Thursday and Friday, as demand has significantly risen due to low temperatures)
11:54 / 6:54: Water cannon deployment resumed
11:52 / 6:52: Radiation hinders deployment of water cannon
10:55 / 5:55: 23 injured in Fukushima atomic power plant — 20 with radioactive contamination (18 named by IAEA, one with very high radiation dose; plus two policemen)
10:41 / 5:41: Hong Kong advises citizens to leave Tokyo
10:18 / 5:18: China demands better official information policy
9:57 / 4:57: Water level in reactor 4 unknown
9:55 / 4:55: German federal chancellor Angela Merkel addressing the Bundestag: "The disaster in Japan is almost apocalyptic in scale. Words fail us."
9:29 / 4:29: Fukushima I reactors 1, 5 and 6 relatively stable
8:12 / 3:12: Nuclear plant operator TEPCO finds volunteers it sought
7:59 / 2:59: Radiation accident in Canada: "lightly" contaminated water released into Lake Ontario
Germany moves embassy
by vildemose on Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:08 AM PDTGermany moves embassy functions to Osaka
//english.kyodonews.jp/...
NEWS ADVISORY: Germany to temporarily move functions of embassy in Tokyo to Osaka amid nuclear crisis
have to admire the nuclear
by vildemose on Thu Mar 17, 2011 09:55 AM PDThave to admire the nuclear enthusiasts for having the chutzpah to make their arguments now.
It is a bit like someone who is advocating to take out the stop signs at an intersection making the argument just as a child who has been struck by a car lies bleeding in the street.
Japan’s devastating
by vildemose on Thu Mar 17, 2011 09:42 AM PDT"Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami last week has actually moved the island closer to United States and dislocated the planet’s axis. From the areas closest to the quake epicenter the island jumped full 13-feet closer to the United States, according to geophysicist ‘Ross Stein’ at the ‘United States Geological Survey’ told The New York Times.
About 15-miles cleft caused by the quake below the sea floor that stretched out 186-miles long and 93-miles wide, according to the AP.
Japan’s 8.9-magnitude quake was the world’s fifth largest earthquake in the history that caused the Pacific tectonic plate dove under the North American plate. The effect made Eastern Japan shifted towards North America by 13-feet according to NASA’s photo before and after the quick.
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The quick made Japan sank downward about 2-feet, as eastern coastline sunk and shifted the axis of the earth by 6.5-inches, shortened the day by 1.6 microseconds.
Why the Earthquake did shorten the day?
The ‘earth’s mass’ shifted towards the center spurring the planet to spin a little bit faster. The massive earthquake of 8.8-magnitudes in Chile last year also shortened the day but only an even smaller fraction of second. The quake in Sumatra in 2004 knocked huge 6.8-microseconds of the day.
//www.quotednews.com/2011/03/15/japan%E2%80%99s-earthquake-shifted-the-earth%E2%80%99s-axis-and-shortened-the-day-according-to-nasa-and-geological-survey/
IAEA will surely revise its
by vildemose on Thu Mar 17, 2011 09:23 AM PDTIAEA will surely revise its laws and regulations to stop the morons in Iran.
China and Germany have suspended several of the nuclear plants projects.
The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (Persian: نیروگاه اتمی بوشهر) is a nuclear power plant in Iran 17 kilometres (11 mi) south-east of the city of Bushehr, between the fishing villages of Halileh and Bandargeh along the Persian Gulf. The plant is located at the junction of three tectonic plates.[1]
Construction of the plant was started in 1975 by German companies, but the work was stopped in 1979 after the Islamic revolution of Iran. A contract for finishing the plant was signed between Iran and the Russian Ministry for Atomic Energy in 1995, with Russia's Atomstroyexport named as the main contractor. The work was delayed several years by technical and financial challenges as well as by political pressure from the West. After the construction almost ground to a halt in 2007,
The Plant is located at the Junction of Three Tectonic Plates as is the case eerily with Japan.
FACTS
by hass on Thu Mar 17, 2011 08:11 AM PDTBack in the 1970s, the US encouraged Iran to go nuclear. Since then, Iran's population has trebled, its oil production has halved, and it uses 40% of its oil domestically. A country has to think 80-100 years ahead when planning for something basic like energy. Sadly, solar power and magic pixie dust are not going to work, which is why there are hundreds of new reactors being built around the world. The Bushehr reactor is designed and operated under IAEA inspections. However if there are additional safety concerns about the Bushehr reactor, then the best solution is for the lifting of sanctions to allow Iran to access the necessary technology and know-how to build the reactor correctly rather than giving up and hoping that perhaps one day magic pixie dust will be our source of energy.
Liar
by hass on Thu Mar 17, 2011 07:58 AM PDTIRans' nuclear reactor designs are subject to IAEA oversight including the design. Sorry, stop trying to exploit the tragedy in Japan for your politics.
The Bushehr reactor is not Ahmadinejad's
by hass on Thu Mar 17, 2011 07:56 AM PDTIRan's reactor at Bushehr was not built by AHmadinejad. It was planned under the Shah.
RUBBISH
by hass on Thu Mar 17, 2011 07:55 AM PDTWhat comlete RUBBISH. Argentina and Brazil both have far more enrichment centrifuges -- are they "bomb producing" countries?
Stop lying.
by hass on Thu Mar 17, 2011 07:54 AM PDTStopy lying. Russia did not "refuse" to bring the Bushehr reactor online because of the stuxnet virus. There was a broken pump, and as a normal safety measure, they decided to check the fuel rods. This is a normal precaution when starting a new reactor and actually goes to show that the Bushehr reactor is operating in safe conditions.
Exploiting tragedy for political gain
by hass on Thu Mar 17, 2011 07:52 AM PDTIf Solar and other forms of energy were practical, there wouldn't be hundreds of new reactors being built around the world today and the price of uranium would not have skyrocketted. THose people who sit on their fat rear ends and declare that everyone should just use solar power should remember that they won't be around in 80-100 years when Iran needs energy.
Iran's reactors are built under the scrutiny of the leading experts at the IAEA. All of the design information is checked by them. Don't try to exploit the situation in Japan for political gain.
Well Said Mr. Fiyouzat
by Mohammad Alireza on Thu Mar 17, 2011 06:10 AM PDTOne big problem with ending the nuclear folly taking place in Iran is that a majority of Iranians have been sold on how prestigious and wonderful it is, which is easy to do when few understand how radiation causes mutations and cancer.
To create change in this area it is important to educate the average Iranian, especially those living near Bushehr, on how radiation causes genetic and cellular damage and no solution has been found to safely dispose of nuclear waste so that it does not become a danger to future generations.
Recently the Russians refused to proceed with bringing the reactor online due to problems caused by the Stuxnet virus. They warned that the potential existed for a Chernobyl like disaster but the Iranian authorities insisted that there be no delay. Here is more:
//www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20110...
Solar does not take off in Iran because it can not compete with our cheap oil and gas, plus laws don't support it, neither for investors nor consumers. We have the perfect environment for solar and could easily build a Desertec of our own that would supply all our needs plus regional countries. Desertec is a plan to supply Europe with solar energy through building massive solar farms in the Sahara Desert. See more on Desertec here.
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec
ARI is right on the ball, my question is?
by Freemasons Exposed on Thu Mar 17, 2011 02:27 AM PDTWhy would a country with a vast amount Solar, Hydro, Geothermal,Wind, Wave and sitting on top of the biggest HydroCarbon reserves in the world would you want to go nuclear in the most destable parts of the world both in terms of seismic activity and political and how does this reflect Irans national intrest?
Iran should not have nuclear power with the current regime
by hirre on Thu Mar 17, 2011 01:13 AM PDTIran with its current regime must not have nuclear power because of two important reasons:
- This regime will not solve the nuclear waste storage problem. This problem hasn't even been solved in other countries. Irans already mest up environment will be more messed up. Also Iran is not equipped for managing emergency situations in case of a disaster, just look att Japan who was equipped but still need help from the rest of the world.
- Iran has build too many centrifuges, the only countries that have so many centrifuges are the nuclear bomb producing countries. You don't need that many centrifuges for power generation. This is also the main reason/fact why the world is afraid of Iran's nuclear program.
Also, nuclear power in general should not be "banned", it depends if you are talking about the old technology (fisson) or the new technology (fusion) that is under development, limitless in supply and emits almost no radiation comparing to fission.
Consider what the cleanup of
by vildemose on Wed Mar 16, 2011 08:56 PM PDTConsider what the cleanup of this mess is going to cost, not to mention leukemia and other healthcare costs to the Japanese:What do you figure? 1T$? 5T$?
For that same "Lost opportunity cost" Japan probably could have put solar on the rooftop of every house in Japan and gone to 70% or more renewables.
Same thing applies to Iran. But IRI is really only interested in nuclear jihad.
"This just in"... Today,
by vildemose on Wed Mar 16, 2011 07:35 PM PDT" Cables recently released
by vildemose on Wed Mar 16, 2011 02:54 PM PDT"
Cables recently released by WikiLeaks show the Japanese government was warned about the design of its nuclear reactors years ago, and did not act. ""
//www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/16/japan-nuclear-crisis-us-officials_n_836772.html
U.S. Concerned Japan Facing
by vildemose on Wed Mar 16, 2011 02:51 PM PDT//www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/16/japan-nuclear-crisis-us-officials_n_836772.html
Ari
by Simorgh5555 on Wed Mar 16, 2011 02:42 PM PDTThank you very much for this. Excellent link. Nuclear energy has been used by many countries for political posturing. Ahmadinejad is happy to boast that Iran has become member of the nuclear club but the last laugh is on him. Nuclear is the equivalent dial-up while every one else has moved over to broadband.
As I said before, for Iranians to enrich uranium shows great talent and ingenuity but imagine if these great minds can be put to use to develop soar energy using Iran's wealth and vast landscape?