Dangerous Levels of Heavy Metals Found on Mount Everest

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  1. skip

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    If you thought a trip to Mount Everest would take you beyond the man-made pollution down below, think again. Besides all the trash strewn around the mountain by nearly 100 years of people climbing the mountain, high levels of arsenic and cadmium, both very toxic, have been found in the soil and snow there. Apparently it comes from industrial pollution from other places in Asia and is carried by wind currents to the top of Everest.

    http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19803-toxic-heavy-metals-reach-top-of-the-world.html
     
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  3. wa bluska wica

    wa bluska wica Pedestrian

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    good news for the mono lake bacteria?
     
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  5. skip

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    Yup, once the Corporations are done polluting our planet, the levels of arsenic should be favorable for those organisms to take over, and for the human race to become extinct...

    You have to realize that if this pollution makes it to the top of Everest, it probably circulates around the planet too. So eventually everywhere will be like the top of Everest in terms of toxic waste.
     
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    I'm thinking that if it has made it to the top of Everest then it has found its way into lower altitudes already.
     
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  9. warmhandedcanadian

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    oh I thought this was about Judas Priest- Black Sabbath -Metallica reunion
     
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    El Double Post-O
     
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    well none of this is news to me.

    all the shit we have been throwing up into the air, over the past 300 years since the industrial revolution... anyone could see that this day would come sooner or later.:sad:
     
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  17. wa bluska wica

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    okay, but what's the bad news?

    i kid, i kid, i'm not one of those

    though i admit to being less worried about humans, who seem to me to be close kin to cockroaches, than i am about various other animals and plants

    i don't know what to tell you though - nobody really cares, make your money today and screw tomorrow, it's like the sixties never happened
     
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  19. natural philosophy

    natural philosophy bitchass sexual chocolate

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    did they find any death metal
     
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    Funny that's the way I felt in 1996 when I created hippy.com. It brought the hippies & 60s back to life for those generations that didn't live thru it. But a website can only go so far... Oh, yeah and there was that book I wrote too... ;)
     
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  23. Sam_Stoned

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    Yeah we're all fucked.

    So no one's gonna give me shit for drinking and smoking.
     
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  25. dirtydog

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    That settles the matter. On my next trip to Everest, I won't eat the dirt. As for snow, it'll have to be boiled for drinking water. I'd consider heavy metal in my water the least of my worries on an Everest climb.

    One unusual feature of Everest is garbage and dead bodies on the usual route (south col, southeast ridge). I believe the Nepalese have sent up at least one expedition to deal with this problem.
     
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  27. thedope

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    So it is a question of how much you are willing to pollute.
     
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