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:

  • Quimby [any, any]
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    2 years ago

    the big problem is that GMO just encompasses such a broad scope of things. I'm mostly pro-GMO, but the more synthetic the methods get, the more concerned I get.

    If there's one thing we've learned from history, it's that nothing is 100% good with no drawbacks. If they ever engineer a tomato that tastes like chocolate, requires a single drop of water to grow, and has all your daily nutritional requirements, I guarantee you we'll find out 20 years later that it causes super cancer or something.

    • newerAccountWhoDis [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I guarantee you we’ll find out 20 years later that

      it's unable to thrive on it's own, but it's pollen is so potent that natural populations of adjacent plants are contaminated and doomed to go extinct.