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environment and the lives of its citizens by setting up
nuclear plants. Japan was a country that frequently suffered Earthquakes and
cyclones and Yamaha feared another Hiroshima could arise if an earthquake
destroyed a nuclear reactor.
    Yamaha and his fellow
conservationists campaigned against the nuclear plants but their protests fell
on deaf ears. Politicians were bankrolled by business corporations who were
only interested in making profits.
    When the IGM heard Yamaha’s
conservationist noise, they approached him and asked him to launch a new green
party in Japan. Yamaha readily agreed and with IGM funding, he recruited
prominent Japanese conservationists and launched the Green Party of Japan.
    The Green Party of Japan
campaigned vigorously and organized many rallies and demonstrations calling for
nuclear abolition. Despite the flopping of most of the rallies and
demonstrations, Yamaha and his green comrades never gave up. They entered their
first general election, and fared dismally, failing to win a single seat in
Japan’s bicameral legislature.
    When the Fukushima disaster struck,
the Green Party of Japan saw a window of opportunity. The government stopped
all nuclear plants after the Fukushima disaster but it made it clear that this
was only a temporary stoppage. The Green Party of Japan campaigned with
increased zeal but it failed to win a single seat in the first general election
after the Fukushima disaster.
    Yamaha and his green comrades
were furious when the government decided to restart the Sendai Nuclear plant. The
Prime minister claimed that the reactors had passed the world’s toughest safety
test but the green activists were skeptical. Proponents of nuclear energy
claimed that nuclear energy was cheap and safe despite the fact that the
Fukushima disaster had proven otherwise. The disaster had exposed people to
radiation and billions of dollars were required to reverse the environmental
damage.
    Yamaha and the Sendai branch
of the Green Party of Japan campaigned vociferously against the restarting of
the Sendai Nuclear Plant but their protests fell on deaf ears. They turned their
frustration from the government and power companies to the electorate. It was
the electorate that was letting the government get away with its dangerous
policies. People only cared about freedom, getting jobs and earning a good
salary, and when they elected politicians in power, they chose politicians whom
they believed could improve their freedom and economic well-being. Only a tiny
percentage of voters thought about the environment when they went to the ballot
box. Most of the electorate didn’t give a damn about the Sendai Nuclear Plant
because it was not in their neighborhood.
    The Executive Council of the IGM
invited Yamaha and fourteen members of the Sendai branch of the Green Party of
Japan to the IGM’s headquarters in New York. Yamaha and his comrades had a long
meeting with the Executive Council.
    Of the fifteen members of the
Sendai branch of the Green Party of Japan, only three refused to enter what Sam
Cruz called the most decisive stage of the war to save the world’s flora and
fauna from mankind’s selfishness and carelessness. The thirteen who remained,
were taken to space and shown the space view of the Earth. They were
immediately sent to E Utopia for training and orientation.
    Rupeni Cokanauto, the ship’s
astrogator, came from Fiji. His people did not use surnames but he had given
himself the surname Cokanauto because having a surname was the norm in the westernized
world. He joined the Front for the Salvation of the Pacific Islands when his
eight-year-old brother drowned after he was swept away by a monstrous king tide
the size of which had never been seen before.  When the incident happened, Cokanauto
was on vacation from the Fijian capital, Suva, where he worked as an
electrician. One second, Cokanauto was watching his young brother kick a ball
and the next, the little boy had been swallowed by the king