after the holiday weekend. and they have perhaps new information on that, but people are waiting to see when they can come back. in is not going to happen tomorrow though, because we still see the fires in the region and smoke in the air, and they want everybody to be safe. they say there are no injury or fatalities and all of the structures are in tact, and they want to leave it that way. my next guest christian perenti believes there is a fast approaching economic and environmental disaster to produce chaos and catastrophe around the world. though it sounds like a scene from armageddon as imagined by a filmmaker, he says that his findings are in fact based on fact. his latest book tropic of chaos, climate change in the new geography of violence has just been published and i m delighted to say he joins us now.
period for severe weather from seven days down to as few as three days. there is no way they can avoid compromising the programs that safeguard our country, he said. and marsha mcnut director of the u.s. geological survey was even more blunt, warning house republicans about the cuts they ve already voted for which would cause 21-day furloughs at u.s. tsunami warning centers and cripple america s ability to maintain its tsunami warning buoys or analyze their data. japan was just hit by a tragic and devastating 9.0 earthquake and tsunami. shame on us if we don t learn from their misfortune. christian parente joins us tonight contributing editor of the nation magazine and author of the upcoming book tropic of chaos, climate change and the new geography of violence. thanks for your time tonight. thanks for having me on. what do you make of these cuts? are they as devastating as
programs reducing our warning period for severe weather from seven days down to as few as three days. there is no way they can avoid compromising the programs that safeguard our country, he said. and marsha mcnut director of the u.s. geological survey was even more blunt, warning house republicans about the cuts they ve already voted for which would cause 21-day furloughs at u.s. tsunami warning centers and cripple america s ability to maintain its tsunami warning buoys or analyze their data. japan was just hit by a tragic and devastating 9.0 earthquake and tsunami. shame on us if we don t learn from their misfortune. christian parente joins us tonight contributing editor of the nation magazine and author of the upcoming book tropic of chaos, climate change and the new geography of violence. thanks for your time tonight. thanks for having me on.
house republican leader eric canter reaffirmed a commitment to nuclear power this week. president obama outlined a nuclear energy strategy in his state of the union address and in his budget proposal. and not long ago he said, we should model our nuclear safety measures on japan. there is no reason why technologically we can t employ nuclear energy in a safe and effective way. japan does it and france does it. but nobody expects an earthquake. joining us tonight is the contributing editor of the nation magazine and author of tropic of chaos, climate change and the new geography of violence. good to have you on tonight. thanks for having me. i think americans, myself, wondering about the integrity of the structures that are out there in this country. your thoughts on that? they are old. they re old and they re rickety and radiation embrittles
nuclear power. so we ve got to really get serious about an energy policy that is going to meet our needs in the future. now, thanks to andrea mitchell for that reporting. see more on andrea mitchell reports at 1:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc. the 104 nuclear reactors here in the united states are aging. half are over 30 years old, and 23 are of the same design as the stricken fukushima plant which raises concerns about safety and the cost of upkeep. in california, two nuclear plants sit on fault lines vulnerable to earthquakes. still, there s a major push in washington to relicense many of these old reactors and to even expand the use of nuclear power here at home. joining us now is christian parente, contributing editor of the nation magazine and author of tropic of chaos. good afternoon. thank you for having me. the nuclear regulatory