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But at least we are healthy and not all radioactive -- aside from the microplastics and forever chemicals.
by lostemptations5 3y ago
But at least we are healthy and not all radioactive -- aside from the microplastics and forever chemicals.
- keyle 3y agonot just microplastics and forever chemicals. Just take a look at the population and compare it to 50 years ago.
- melling 3y agoAnd the mercury emitted from all that coal we still burn: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09080-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09080-6 And in our chemical processes https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/chinese-companies-slated-for-mercury-pollution-in-cameroon/ https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/chinese-companies-slated-f... I imagine we’d be talking about going carbon neutral by 2100 instead of 2050 if we hadn’t burned so much coal We should reach peak coal sometime in this decade: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-15/coal-s-peak-is-here-but-demise-of-dirtiest-fuel-will-be-slow https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-15/coal-s-pe...
- RobotToaster 3y agoCoal power plants release more radioactive waste into the environment than nuclear ones...