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There is nothing in the natural environment that causes cancer. In ancient times before coal smoke stacks were spewing off uranium, cancer was unheard of. You're right we all haven't die of cancer, but many people have ever since the industrial age. You can't prove small amounts of radiation over a prolonged period are harmless. Of course Fukushima isn't going to kill everyone, but to suggest it will have zero impact at all on anything is absurd.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1296906 There are plenty of things in the environment that cause cancer. Prolonged and excessive solar radiation, HPV and other viruses, and most importantly - living a long time.
Cancer was "unheard of" just like HIV and numerous other diseases were "unheard of" - people hadn't discovered them yet. When people lived to be 30 years old they aren't going to die from cancer.
Hell, untreated it will take years for cancer to kill you.
Substances like uranium and plutonium are biologically inert - they pass right through you - they do not "bio-accumulate."
Life evolved under radiation from every source. You have it in your bones from potassium and from carbon-14 throughout your body. There is zero evidence that low-level radiation causes cancer. In fact, the opposite is likely true since the cancer rates in the country tend to be the lowest in the areas with the highest background radiation.
If you think cancer didn't exist before the industrial revolution, you know the thing that has greatly extended your lifespan and provides you with numerous comforts, then you are an idiot who has been brainwashed into being scared of his own shadow.
Learn the difference between NORMs (naturally occurring radioactive materials) and man made radiation please. Quit trying to downplay something you obviously know little to nothing about.
And if you think that cancer rates haven't risen exponentially since the the 1800s, then you have lost the ability to reason. Ask any renowned health care expert and they will tell you that the BIGGEST concern for the health care industry today is environmental toxicity.
Oh, and by the way -- viruses are not natural.
No cancer history in previous recent generations and yet, my father , my three uncles,my sister, two aunts, two grandmothers, all dead from cancer. Five of them within 3 years of each other. My three living siblings with cancer. None of whom lived near a nuclear power plant or munitions facility. But all who at one time or another lived in California near San Francisco in the shadows of the Berkeley Labs and Livermore Labs and Stanford University.
They say the labs have been contaminating the area since the fifties and that the water in the bay has had significant readings for decades.
The military used to dismantle the nuclear Navy vessels at various locations throughout the bay which would clearly have contributed.
They also used the Farrallon Islands as a nuclear waste facility for and extended period of time. They still do above air testing at Livermore labs in Tracy of depleted uranium.
And it is also entirely possible that the military and it's above ground testing in nearby Nevada for decades contaminated the air as well as soil in this region. The ocean, it's tributaries, as well as sea life is compromised by radiation, the soil in which the beautiful foods and wines of the the Napa and Sonoma valley is compromised, the entire area has been a receptacle of nuclear waste since it's inception.
And my family , like so many others, has been decimated by the scourge of this heinous science of a few men, who decided for the rest of humanity how it was all going to play out.
The governing bodies of this country have been obscuring the truth about radiation dangers from day one . Do you really think they plan on changing the long held policy now?
My sage wisdom, wrought from profound loss, is absolutely not.......
