Chris Williams is a long-time environmental activist and author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis (Haymarket, 2010). An adjunct professor at Pace University in the Dept of Chemistry and Physical Science where he teaches courses in physics and energy and the environment. His writings have appeared in Z Magazine, Counterpunch, The Indypendent, Dissident Voice, International Socialist Review, Truth Out, Terraspheres.com, Socialist Worker, ZNet and Climate and Capitalism. He is reporting from Fukushima, Japan in December.