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In order to not downplay how much of an issue artificial fertilizer is in term of runoff, practically every fresh water lake in western countries have become po
by belorn 5y ago
In order to not downplay how much of an issue artificial fertilizer is in term of runoff, practically every fresh water lake in western countries have become poisoned. The whole Baltic Sea is turning into dead zone where even bacteria have a hard time surviving, and in many countries that have a coast, both humans and animals can't be in the water during long parts of the year for the risk of getting poisoned. If you have one ocean area where you test nuclear bombs, and the other where you have "normal" amount of runoff from artificial fertilizer, the nuclear bomb site will be healthier and have more diverse ecological environment.
We might not want to ban the stuff, but we need to start demanding that farming is a closed loop in term of artificial fertilizers.
- Robotbeat 5y agoThat honestly says more about our misplaced paranoia on nuclear waste and the environment than it does anything else.
- belorn 5y agoIf you dive in the coast of the Baltic Sea from may and for the rest of the year, this is what you will likely see: (https://www.azotelibrary.com/en/image/Omr%C3%A5de-med-syrebrist-i-Sing%C3%B6fj%C3%A4rden%2C-%C3%96stersj%C3%B6n/Omr%C3%A5de-med-syrebrist-i-Sing%C3%B6fj%C3%A4rden%2C-%C3%96stersj%C3%B6n/14982 https://www.azotelibrary.com/en/image/Omr%C3%A5de-med-syrebr...). Similar for most lakes, except the color is then only black and brown. Miles and miles of grey, black and green mass of death.