Why Miners Risk Their Lives To Get Sulfur From An Active Volcano | Risky Business
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In East Java, Indonesia, hundreds of miners face deadly smoke to mine sulfur, or "devil's gold." So why do they do it? In this episode of Risky Business, we ...

THEYRE FREELANCE CONTRACTORS AND PAY FOR THEIR OWN EQUIPMENT :bird-screm-2:

THEY STILL FOLLOW SOCIAL DISTANCING PROTOCOLS DESPITE THE SULFUR EVISCERATING THEIR LUNGS :amerikkka-clap:

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    There's tons of really cool potential applications for using genetic modification to improve diversity. Are you familiar with the American chestnut reintroduction project?

    • kristina [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I'm vaguely aware of it. IMO the big boost for GMOs is it lets us avoid all of these dangerous (environmentally and for human health) situations for mining. The idea that GMOs can cause cancer or something which is widely touted is very nebulous, also the idea that 'natural is better' is pretty psycho because plenty of 'natural things' can kill you within a weekend.

      • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        It's pretty cool; the idea of the project was to engineer a way around an introduced pathogen that the species was never able to adapt to naturally and re-establish it in the wild.

        I agree that the health risks are overblown - most of the time the gene expression isn't even in the part of the plant that gets eaten. The hysteria is silly. But at the same time herbicide resistant crops are known to encourage higher herbicide applications so I guess there's a case for indirect impacts :shrug-outta-hecks: