From Vice:
"The Northern Canadian territories often get written off by all of us as a frigid tundra of nothingness. But it’s probably about time we start paying attention to the situation up there. Yellowknife is currently sitting on 237,000 tons of arsenic—enough to kill the entire human population of our planet a few times over...."
Arghhh! Run for the hills!
"However, with a crumbling infrastructure and increasing concern about leakage into the local water supply, the time has come to do something about it. Now that it is 2014 and the Canadian government is older and wiser, they have finally come up with what a reasonable solution to our minor poison problem: They are going to freeze the 237,000 tons of arsenic trioxide underground—for all of eternity.
“How can we ever ensure that human systems are going to continue to keep something that requires rather sophisticated engineering and monitoring to function forever, that’s just crazy,” argues Kevin O’Reilly, an activist with Northern Alternatives. “We can’t even remember how the pyramids were built 5,000 years ago. How can we know that 5,000 years from now, if there are even people on this planet, that they are going to know what to do to keep this stuff frozen? That’s just irresponsible.”
Know what's irresponsible? Not grasping history and trying to draw analogies from it.
That we've become far, far, far more sophisticated in our communications and language skills as compared to past civilizations means nothing to this guy. It's as if he thinks we still possess the same mindset as the Egyptians and never evolved from that point. I wouldn't worry about it too much as we can leave behind a 'know-how' manual I'm pretty sure.
Total deranged these people are.
From the comments:
"And for useless gold of all things. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people and their obsession with an almost worthless element such as gold?"
Yeah, it does seem 'irrational' doesn't it? But guess what? It has a perceived value among people and countries. It's a hedge against currency and gold is seen as hard collateral. Why they settled on gold is not the point. They 'could' have chosen some other metal I suppose but they didn't.
So go ahead and call it useless. It's useless to you. If you want to change it, then propose it and see how you do and get back to me O-kay, Jo-Jo?
It's like the left never grow wise beyond ten years old or something.
"The Northern Canadian territories often get written off by all of us as a frigid tundra of nothingness. But it’s probably about time we start paying attention to the situation up there. Yellowknife is currently sitting on 237,000 tons of arsenic—enough to kill the entire human population of our planet a few times over...."
Arghhh! Run for the hills!
"However, with a crumbling infrastructure and increasing concern about leakage into the local water supply, the time has come to do something about it. Now that it is 2014 and the Canadian government is older and wiser, they have finally come up with what a reasonable solution to our minor poison problem: They are going to freeze the 237,000 tons of arsenic trioxide underground—for all of eternity.
“How can we ever ensure that human systems are going to continue to keep something that requires rather sophisticated engineering and monitoring to function forever, that’s just crazy,” argues Kevin O’Reilly, an activist with Northern Alternatives. “We can’t even remember how the pyramids were built 5,000 years ago. How can we know that 5,000 years from now, if there are even people on this planet, that they are going to know what to do to keep this stuff frozen? That’s just irresponsible.”
Know what's irresponsible? Not grasping history and trying to draw analogies from it.
That we've become far, far, far more sophisticated in our communications and language skills as compared to past civilizations means nothing to this guy. It's as if he thinks we still possess the same mindset as the Egyptians and never evolved from that point. I wouldn't worry about it too much as we can leave behind a 'know-how' manual I'm pretty sure.
Total deranged these people are.
From the comments:
"And for useless gold of all things. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people and their obsession with an almost worthless element such as gold?"
Yeah, it does seem 'irrational' doesn't it? But guess what? It has a perceived value among people and countries. It's a hedge against currency and gold is seen as hard collateral. Why they settled on gold is not the point. They 'could' have chosen some other metal I suppose but they didn't.
So go ahead and call it useless. It's useless to you. If you want to change it, then propose it and see how you do and get back to me O-kay, Jo-Jo?
It's like the left never grow wise beyond ten years old or something.
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