JOINT STATEMENT
by JINZABURO TAKAGI & MYCLE SCHNEIDER

"ALTERNATIVE NOBEL PRIZE" 1997

Overwhelmed by the public and private reactions from many countries to the
winning of a Right Livelihood Award 1997, we would like to thank for often
touching congratulations and wish to express our gratefulness to the many
people we work with and who made this recognition possible.
Our first private thoughts go to our respective partners who have actively
supported our activities through many years of long and sometimes difficult
working hours as well as frequent absence due to our intense international
work.
Both of us work with a team of devoted collaborators who play a fundamental
role to render our part possible and effective. There are also a number of
close friends in various countries who have become invaluable to our common
efforts.
But there are many more people out there who share our social and
environmental concerns over the development of the nuclear industry and the
plutonium economy in particular.
As two out of some 70 people and projects worldwide who have received the
Right Livelihood Award since it has been introduced by Jakob von Uexkull in
1980 - in fact, it is the first time that a Japanese individual and an
individual who works out of metropolitan France receive the award(*)  - we
feel extremely honoured and are fully aware of our increased
responsibilities at the same time.
We have the hope that this award will help raise awareness to the issues we
are most concerned about. But beyond, the world needs to implement radical
change in nuclear and energy policies if future disasters and human
distress are to be avoided. This is a very major task - not because of
technical problems but rather because of political difficulties - to which
we hopefully continue to contribute our modest share but which needs a
substantial collective effort most of all.

(*)The Japanese Seikatsu Club Consumers' Cooperative received an honorary
award in 1989. Marie-Therese Danielsson, a French national living in
Polynesia, received an award with her husband Bengt Danielsson in 1991.



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