I am so tired of hearing about this.
If the media did one tenth the pearl clutching concern for the shit that is actually destroying the environment, the dumping of gigatons of co2 into the atmosphere every fucking year, we may have done something about it.
This entire Fukushima waste water thing is just the modern plastic straw. Dumping it isn’t great, but fuck, there’s like three billion other things we should be really worried about more when it comes to the environment.
The media’s priorities on particular issues is fucked sometimes.
It's been amplified to a considerable degree due to regional geopolitics, unfortunately.
China greenhouse gas emissions just at swept under the rug
While it isn't great it isn't terrible either. It just is. Also the media wouldn't have to force scientists and responsible politicians to explain it this non-issue over and over if the public finally understood that Fukushima disaster is hardly a goddamn disaster. The moronic public opinion in this particular case did way more harm than the actual accident.
It’s funny cuz I thought they’ve been doing this all along, what have they been doing until now?
They have been treating the waste water for years to remove 99%+ of the contamination before releasing it.
Simpsons already did it
Im gonna smoke one cigarette to prove they don't cause cancer.
There's less radiation in this water than a banana. A cigarette is not comparable in health risk.
Well I agree but I was simply pointing out how meaningless the gesture is even if it were harmful
You think you were, but you weren't, because radiation doesn't work like carcinogens do.
Well smoking Tobacco directly releases Polonium 210 and some radium into your lungs, so I think it's a fair comparison...
Ah yes, the Devil's Milkshake comes to Tokyō.
Not in the news is that after that PR stunt, he went straight to the hospital to get his stomach pumped out.
(No, I’m not serious)
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