Oops, there goes some more satire: https://local.theonion.com/preemptive-memorial-honors-future-victims-of-imminent-d-1819594660
The USA does not have a single leg to stand on and lecture China, about literally anything.
was there not a privatly owned Damn ast year that flooded a Chemical Plant or something ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-21/michigan-flood-puts-privately-owned-dams-in-a-critical-spotlight
America evolving from "Damn, that Katrina thing was wack, hope it doesn't happen again" to "Three Katrinas a Year is Totally Normal Why Don't You People Just Learn To Code?"
I've got a lot of good comrades down there I've been checking on :sadness:
It seems like things are looking a little less dire at the moment in terms of potential catastrophic collapse and I'm hoping it doesn't get to that point, but letting things get so bad to the point where you need to pump hundreds of millions of gallons of fertilizer-laden wastewater into the bay (and then the gulf) where it will certainly cause big algae blooms just in time for red tide season is still absolutely fucking inexcusable.
Capitalism is a fuck, neoliberalism is a fuck, deregulation is a fuck, unmaintained infrastructure is a fuck :amerikkka:
This is like the American version of that dam in China, so I feel like I should be rooting for it to blow up. I’m not going to do that though because I’m not a fucking psychopath.
they probably dissolve the company and then create a new one designed to soak up Superfund cleanup funds
You can't build down in Florida, the most of the state is 10 feet above the water table, the coastal areas (like where this is) are usually less.
This also means rising ocean levels can't be held back by sea walls or dikes. It will just come up from below ground. Florida is basically a giant sandbar.
This dyke wouldn't want to hold the ocean back anyway, sea levels take my energy
:sicko-yes:
(Obligatory yes I know that the people who will be most immediately harmed by sea level rise are the most marginalized and that having a bunch of Florida in our oceans will obviously be bad for everyone, I lived in that garbage state for long enough to justify rooting against it as an institution and obviously don't wish ill on our Floridian comrades and don't wish for all of the toxic shit on Florida's surface to get swept away and fuck up the ocean ecology)
On a scale of 1 to deadly - I wonder how radioactive the water is...
The governor said the water 'is not radioactive'.
is not radioactive
That's exactly how scientists express quantities of radiation.
It's less that the water itself is radioactive and more that the water is stored on phosphogypsum stacks (a byproduct of phosphate processing, consisting of the remaining rock that phosphorous was extracted from). The phosphogypsum is radioactive because phosphate rock also contains some uranium, thorium, and radium. Water itself doesn't really get radioactive - it's a great radiation shield actually, which is why spent nuclear fuel rods are often stored at the bottoms of pools. The main concern would be if a phosphogypsum slurry got mixed into the water I'd think.
Granted since there's other shit in the water I wouldn't be surprised if it's uhhhh a little more radioactive than average but probably not a ton? I don't know much about phosphate processing and byproducts though, I'm just a dumbass who knows a little chemistry, so take with a grain of salt
