[lit-ideas] Re: "It moves ..." (or at least used to)
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- Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 10:28:28 +0100
On 30 Nov 2016, at 12:12, I wrote:
The (so-called) New Safe Containment at Chernobyl in the Ukraine was slid
into place (a rather laconic expression for the engineering feat whose last
movements are chronicled in the video linked above) over the ‘sarcophagus’
which has seriously deteriorated since its hasty construction in 1986. …
According to LIVE SCIENCE, because of the long-lived radiation in the region
surrounding the former Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the area won't be safe
for human habitation for at least 20,000 years.
… consider that if we look BACKWARD the same length of time [199 centuries]
we see that the creation of clay pottery was the ‘dernier cri’ — and the use
of raw metals was still ‘Zukunftsmusik’ [a rather lovely German figurative
expression for ‘dreams of the future’.)
An article found currently on the Canadian Broadcasting Commission’s website
outlines the beginnings of human environmental contamination which resulted in
"metals like copper, zinc, lead, arsenic and thallium [being] absorbed by
plants, which were then eaten by animals and people”, which "likely led to
widespread health problems, Adams said, including infertility, malformations
and premature death.”
"Neolithic humans who were learning how to smelt were responsible for the
world's first polluted river approximately 7,000 years ago, a team of
international researchers has found.”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/polluted-river-southern-jordan-smelting-copper-waterloo-1.3882242
Chris Bruce,
momentarily taking off his gloom-and-doom hat to
post a second more cheerful message to the list, in
Kiel, Germany
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