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Environment & Energy

hunter

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4. Industry dumps worse stuff in the ocean and atmosphere every day.

Reply to soryang (Original post)

Thu Jan 2, 2020, 04:14 AM

Jan 2020

Plenty of toxins with a half-life of FOREVER!

Not to mention greenhouse gasses.

Fukushima is a big expensive mess to clean up, but it's fossil fuels and human population growth that will destroy whatever is left of earth's natural environment.

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