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Re:Do Animals in Chernobyl’s Fallout Zone Glow? by d0mine on Monday January 21, 2013 @07:49PM (#5094766)
Humans deal with it just fine.

  In 2009, there were 31 countries reported in which at least 10% of children under five died.
For comparison:

  In 2011, the world average was 51 (5.1%), down from 87 (8.7%) in 1990.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_mortality
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Re:Do Animals in Chernobyl’s Fallout Zone Glow? by mikeash on Monday January 21, 2013 @09:23PM (#5095148)
We "deal with it" in the sense that we can survive and even thrive in such an environment. But we don't "deal with it just fine" in terms of accepting it when we could easily change it by e.g. avoiding a particular area.
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