'This is absurd': Train cars that derailed in Ohio were labeled non-hazardous

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10. Basically, this event, is going to end up being a lot like radiation releases at Fukushima.

The coal, oil, and gas burned to power computers to discuss it on the internet will have a far greater health and environmental impact than the event itself.

The amount of attention being paid is disturbing on a practical level, since there are far more serious issues deserving attention that are routinely ignored.

There is lots of information on the hazards, half-lives, etc. of all the components. It's been readily available like, forever, on the internet. When the accident happened I looked it all up, and was satisfied that it was not even close to being a major disaster.

Now it is?

Has a single fatality been recorded?

18,000 people will die today from air pollution from the combustion of dangerous fossil fuels but very little attention is being paid to that.

Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (Lancet Volume 396, Issue 10258, 17–23 October 2020, Pages 1223-1249).

Diesel trains routinely release toxic chemicals because, well, they burn diesel fuel, which routinely releases carcinogenic PM2.5, PAHs benzofurans, etc...

Let me guess what the "solution" is.

We ship all PVC manufacture to poor countries so we can use PVC piping at the expense of poor people while declaring ourselves safe and clean.

Right?