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>> here are no EPA surveys of beach radioactivity. No beach signs warning beachgoers "do not eat the sand", Perhaps there should be. The idea that the natural
by sandworm101 2y ago
>> here are no EPA surveys of beach radioactivity. No beach signs warning beachgoers "do not eat the sand",
Perhaps there should be. The idea that the natural world is somehow safe has roots in mythology, that some creator has designed the world for us and so any "untouched" wilderness is unpolluted and free of invisible pollutions. Maybe there are beaches with dangerous levels of radiation. I am open to the concept that there exists natural places nevertheless radioactive enough to justify warnings. We certainly issue warnings for other unseen natural hazards.
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