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Re:Fukushima studies show wildlife is doing nicely without h... by refurb on Sunday September 26, 2021 @09:26AM (#28660705)
This makes no sense. Humans are nature.

If you went to say Africa and killed all the lions there, the wildlife would “flourish” in the same way, but it wouldn’t be natural because lions killing prey and reducing their numbers is natural.

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Re:Fukushima studies show wildlife is doing nicely without h... by codetrotter on Sunday September 26, 2021 @09:36AM (#28660788)
> Humans are nature.

Yeah but they didn’t say we weren’t. They said we are more dangerous to wildlife than nuclear accidents.

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Re:Fukushima studies show wildlife is doing nicely without h... by true_religion on Sunday September 26, 2021 @10:11AM (#28661034)
To be fair, a pride of lions is also more dangerous to wildlife than a nuclear accident.

Lions, like humans, have intent and will happily track down and kill the last deer.

A nuclear accident on the other hand will only kill at random and will “let go” of many animals it could kill but didn’t happen to incidentally radiate as it disapated.

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