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We are probably living in one of Earth's great mass extinctions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinct
by bradL 13y ago
We are probably living in one of Earth's great mass extinctions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
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- arethuza 13y agoIs Fukushima really worse than the decades of nuclear weapons testing carried out by the US, France and the UK in the Pacific?
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- arethuza 13y agoAnd I have no idea whether Fukushima is actually worse or not - I was trying to ask a genuine question, not be snarky. :-)
- gaius 13y agoThere are two factors there really, the nuclear stuff, and the material that was swept out to sea from the surrounding area which would have happened whether or not the reactor was there.
- epaladin 13y agoI wish there was a way to know what the actual condition of Fukushima is. News reports have been so conflicting, it seems the only way to know what's going on would be to go and measure things yourself.
- amalag 13y agoFukushima would be like decades of dirty nuclear bomb testing.
- code_duck 13y agoBlowing up islands with nuclear weapons is pretty dirty, isn't it?
- code_duck 13y agoI asked that question a few days ago and received a detailed answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6939681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6939681
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- 3am 13y agoWe are _causing_ one of Earth's mass extinctions.