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But, if he spits out the fish like Mr. Burns, we’ll have a laugh that will last for decades.
The level of ignorance around any nuclear related incident is astounding
If the radiation levels are truly negligible then the media shares blame for getting people upset over it.
Also, no news piece ever mentioned how far from the coast Japan is planning to release that water
Why would that matter, do living things cease to exist once you get farther from the coast?
Yeah, it’s beyond the environment.
we generally eat fewer of them farther from the coast
Truly. The evacuation order itself killed more people around Fukushima than radiation did.
I want to know more about this do you have an article you recommend?
Damn that’s pretty sad
It is. And it’s maddening that people just say the word Fukushima as evidence against the viability of nuclear power. Radiation is such a boogeyman to people. Not well understood. And I don’t even think people know that there was a tsunami that killed 2000 people. 1 death from radiation - a plant worker.
Sure, let’s discard a high capacity, carbon-neutral, baseline-capable form of energy over this.
People don’t even know that smokestacks on coal fired power plants spew radiation into the atmosphere. The fact that nuclear deposits it in barrels is actually a plus.
Holy crap. This is how I find out that Rahm Emanuel is the US Ambassador to Japan? How is he possibly qualified for that job?
This will be fine for him but I am reminded of Thomas Midgely Jr who popularized using lead as an additive. He showed how safe it was by breathing in leaded exhaust fumes. He very shortly after took a vacation which was really just him recovering from lead poisoning.
Fuck that guy. His death was pretty hilarious though. He got polio and was largely bed ridden. He made a serious of pulleys to help himself work. He got tangled in it and accidentally hung himself.
Your understating how destructive that man was. He’ll probably end up killing more people than anyone in history.
You can’t blame global warming on one person, but he was a huge and significant factor in it.
Not really global warming but he was the main contributor to the hole in the ozone layer we are still fixing since he popularized CFCs as a refrigerant.
What are the effects of the hole in the ozone layer?
Mostly increased radiation. There is some extra warming but it is very minor.
https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/15/is-the-ozone-hole-causing-climate-change/
You are still correct that his inventions have killed a fuck ton of people. Skin cancer is definitely deadly and lead causes a whole host of problems including death.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321203#Even-low-levels-of-lead-are-harmful
Bummer that my wild stab was wrong. Even bigger bummer about all the dead. I don’t like being wrong like this.
That strikes me as more sad than funny. I don’t understand why you would screw yourself over so thoroughly just to try and convince the world that you didn’t screw them over. Everyone loses.
When you ego is more important than all of humanity (yourself included).
Money.
He also figured out that CFCs were great for refrigerants and popularized their use.
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Didn’t know Rahm went from mayor of Chicago to Ambassador to Japan.
Something’s fishy about Rahm.
Reminds me of that guy who launched himself against a window to demonstrate how unbreakable they were
Well, the windows didn’t break…
At least that would prove/disprove something.
You could eat an unsafely irradiated fish and it’s not like you would drop dead before the last bite.
Still. Anxiety about Fukushima radiation has always been massively overblown.
Quick: without googling, someone tell me how many people died at Fukushima, and how many of those where from radiation.
Ambassador: Joke’s on them, I’m already dead on the inside.
Straight out of the Obama playbook
“This fish I’m about to eat is totally from the area where the radioactive water was dumped and not something we imported from a clean environment.”
Good. We’re going to feed him a bunch of Plymouth oysters if they ever dump the nuclear water from the pilgrim power plant in Cape cod Bay too.
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