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Re:Cringley: Japan may have just permanently lost 20% of its... by JoeAltmaier on Saturday March 12, 2011 @10:31PM (#2318223)
Arable land gets people excited? Really? I can't say I don't know anybody that gets excited over arable land, I know one guy, but he's a soil and water commissioner.

That's still too intellectual to make most folks even notice. California farmland is getting poisoned by selenium from groundwater wells, but not a lot of folks picketing about that.

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Re:Cringley: Japan may have just permanently lost 20% of its... by blahblahblah on Sunday March 13, 2011 @12:22AM (#2318425)
They might not care all that much about the "arable" part, but I don't think the "permanently uninhabitable" part is too intellectual for the average person to grok.
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