Environmentalist David Suzuki issued a warning during a recent symposium held at the University of Alberta: if Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant collapses due to a earthquake, Japan is gone and the entire western coast of North America would have to evacuate

"Three out of the four plants were destroyed in the earthquake and in the tsunami. The fourth one has been so badly damaged that the fear is, if there's another earthquake of a seven or above that, that building will go and then all hell breaks loose,” Suzuki said.

Suzuki added that the probability of an earthquake occurring above a 7.0 on the Richter scale within the next three years is 95%, which makes the situation in Fukushima even direr.

After Suzuki's warning, Japan announced that it will work with the U.S. Department of Energy to clean up the plant and remove dangerous fuel rods, something that could take decades to fix.

Watch more from the symposium and hear more about what Suzuki had to say here:

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