by KaiserJeep » Sat 26 May 2018, 11:38:51
In spite of popular misconceptions caused by a lifetime of poorly conceived "creature features" from the 1950s onwards, radioactivity in the oceans is relatively harmless compared to the chemical pollutions that are of huge concern.
"Properly treated sewage" effluents from municipal plants are responsible for discharging wastes where the bacteria count has been altered and much reduced. However the treated wastes contain the entire modern pharmacology of everything humans consume, from human growth hormones to elaborate organic chemicals to oddball vitamin supplements from everywhere on Earth. Agricultural runoffs contain a huge abundance of fertilizers and pesticides and herbicides, as does human wastes from food crops grown with such chemicals.
Most of it causes widespread algae blooms, and huge unbalances in plankton growth. Eventually, these chemicals end up in the flesh of the "filter feeders", the fresh and salt water shellfish, which in turn are a major human food source the world over.
Places like China and other Eastern countries have long used human wastes as fertilizers to grow rice. The recycling of chemicals is even shorter there, and humans who have never received or consumed antibiotics for example have measurable levels of common antibiotics and when they develope infections, these are antibiotic resistent strains. Here in the Western World we are beginning to practice "sustainable agriculture" in many forms, including typically a compost pile that serves up a witches brew of everthing that was ever used on the soils being fortified with organic composts.
It's just one more symptom of an overcrowded planet. I actually think that most people get obsessed with radioactivity for two reasons. The first being the afore-mentioned "creature features", popular since the end of WW2 and the bombing of Japan (which of course afflicted that country with Godzilla). The second is to avoid thinking about the huge range of persistent organic and inorganic chemicals that now circle the planet in an unavoidable, all pervasive shroud of death. It is the message from Silent Spring, writ large and incrementally worse as the years pass by and we add more and more chemicals to our bodies.
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