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04-11-2011, 01:18 AM
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Oh I am having a compost heap, I do not use pesticides and I even collect rainwater from the roof to water the gardens
 - We have no neighbors though...In any case - I do not want to overestimate the effect this has - but it seems there IS an effect, even if the soil life can recover from it and even if it is not global. And that is just one of the particles - I posted an article a while ago that showed that iron nanoparticles can go into the muscle tissue of animals. The whole issue seems as of now to be less important than others but nanotechnology is just starting to take off - I am sure many other effects will be found in the next years - usually in the aftermath of widespread use. I definitely regard global warming as a key issue. But I dislike if people focus solely on that and forget about the various other threats this world faces. What about 40% loss of phytoplankton in the oceans - the true "lungs" of our planet, what about 90% of the fish in the oceans going away, what about pollinators dying, what about radiation and endocrine disruptors. Some of these do not pose a global threat, but they cannot be ignored or pushed aside by "the bigger issue".
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