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Wildlife Returning To Chernobyl
The wilderness is encroaching over abandoned towns in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. One of the elderly residents who refused to evacuate the contaminated area says packs of wolves have eaten two of her dogs, and wild boar trample through her cornfield. Scientist are divided as to whether or not the animals are flourishing in the highly radioactive environment: "Robert J. Baker of Texas Tech University says the mice and other rodents he has studied at Chernobyl since the early 1990s have shown remarkable tolerance for elevated radiation levels. But Timothy Mousseau of the University of South Carolina, a biologist who studies barn swallows at Chernobyl, says that while wild animals have settled in the area, they have struggled to build new populations."
Dude that's not a third leg , notice all the female monkeys running from him ? The radiation has obviously made him very well endowed , but not liked. Go figure ! Guess sizes does matter and it can be too big.
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Exactly. That, and the fact that the deads of Iraqis is WAY higher.
And also we should count how many people die in Iraq every year because of hunger, diseases, lack of medical care, lack of vaccines, etc. And if we take into account the fact that this is because the U.S.A has been living at the expenses of 3rd world countries for 2 hundred years, from slavery to gun trading, from controlled dictatorships to the FMI, the US got rich at the expenses of the rest of the world. And each dollar those dead soldiers and the rest of the USA population spent over the years, was one less dollar in Iraq, and one more kid dying of causes that could be prevented. So those soldiers were killing people in Iraq before they went to war. And so did the rest of the population. For 2 hundred years. They are also in a big part responsible for the lack of funding for education, what eventually leads to an uneducated, easily controlled population. And that, and the help of the USA Government, lead eventually to Saddam Hussein.
How many deaths could we prevent in Iraq with the money spent just in the funeral of a soldier of the USA?
Consider THIS: A typical funeral in the USA costs u$s 6000. An Iraqi father earns around u$s 150 a month. So an Iraqi family could live for MORE THAN 3 YEARS with just the cost of burying one soldier.
The killing didn't start with the war.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
I've been trying to irradiate spiders and let them bite me for years now. All I get is an itchy welt each time. I'm going to sue Marvel for false advertising, damn it!
Instead of just insulting everyone in the Western world, how about you offer some solutions?
China and India seem to be finding wealth without draining it from the rest of the world... could that be because wealth is created all the time, and doesn't just come from a big finite pool? Standards of living have gone up almost everywhere over the last half-century - this wouldn't be possible in a finite pool of wealth.
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Everyone in the western world? I was talking very specifically about the U.S.A, not the whole western world.
And total wealth is not growing because:
1) Many of the resources that the human being uses are non-renewable.
2) The population is growing.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?