I need to look at this closely when I get home; I'm curious as to what they're describing as "nuclear waste." Few things in the universe are as radioactive as the remains of a reactor core.
That's quite interesting, and unsettling. One thing struck me: the statement that radiation doses increased when people consumed food that had been grown in the area. That impacts the health effects of the 50-mile diet rather severely, which is a problem. In order to make a 50-mile diet a healthy alternative, we need to make sure that the health of the food itself is smoothed out at the 50-mile level. The length scale for all of the mutually interrelated systems at work in our lives has to be comparable; you can't work out disposal of waste products at a 500-mile granularity and then eat at a 50-mile granularity.
That impacts the health effects of the 50-mile diet rather severely
Gah! Excellent point! *curses*
(There's a coal plant about 2 miles from our house -- it's very controversial and various groups have been trying to get it shut down, but it's still belching away.)
I remember reading someplace about the poorer areas in NOLA that were flooded during Katrina, and how there was a ton of toxic waste under them. the example they used was a tomato that had been grown in that soil, and it was pretty much a solid ball of lead. :-( Even trying to grow your own food and eat healthy in an area like that will kill you. *sigh*
It really makes me wonder sometimes about stuff. I recall looking at the basic premise of "The Bell Curve" and thinking that it wasn't only wrong, but provably incorrect -- but sometimes I wonder if there isn't a squidgen of a percent difference between the average of all white people and the average of all black people, and how much of that is down to freaking MALNUTRITION.
Then I look at pictures of Paris Hilton and think better of it.
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Thanks for the heads up...I'll go to my corner and glow now, as there's a coal-fired power plant just across the river.
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*bookmarks for later*
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Gah! Excellent point! *curses*
(There's a coal plant about 2 miles from our house -- it's very controversial and various groups have been trying to get it shut down, but it's still belching away.)
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It really makes me wonder sometimes about stuff. I recall looking at the basic premise of "The Bell Curve" and thinking that it wasn't only wrong, but provably incorrect -- but sometimes I wonder if there isn't a squidgen of a percent difference between the average of all white people and the average of all black people, and how much of that is down to freaking MALNUTRITION.
Then I look at pictures of Paris Hilton and think better of it.
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