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by lupusreal 384 days ago
Chemical pollution is a lot scarier in a way, since it's much harder to detect. Even absolutely tiny amounts of radioactive contamination its existence to cheap widely available detectors. But I think chemical pollution is easier to ignore since it's harder to detect.
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A lot of chemical pollution lasts literally forever, too. It's kind of funny the way the mind works. "This will remain dangerous for ten thousand years" somehow sounds scarier than "this is always dangerous."