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To be more realistic, you'll never find out. I'd challenge anyone who thinks we know all of them in the USA. It doesn't even take the corruption that a big em
by droopyEyelids 7y ago
To be more realistic, you'll never find out.
I'd challenge anyone who thinks we know all of them in the USA.
It doesn't even take the corruption that a big employer in a small town automatically creates to have a 'hidden' superfund site.
It only takes the lack of dedicated professionals testing everything all the time. Tracking sources and types of pollution is _not only_ difficult, highly technical work that requires a lot of infrastructure- but it also _requires its own R&D to keep up with new industrial chemicals_. This means it's fiercely expensive, manpower-limited, and that it takes a long, long time.
What country is going to dedicate that amount of resources to find problems that'll cost even more money to clean up (or possibly can't be cleaned up at all)? Maybe Norway. Maybe.
- throwaway2048 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cancer_clusters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cancer_clusters This always gives me pause, plenty don't have any known cause.