There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.
The risk of pollution exists for the infosphere as it does for the atmosphere. Freedom of the infosphere should thus become a law, and the Bible needs to have an 11th commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's data.
If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic.
The active and abandoned tailings ponds I have photographed, for example, are strangely beautiful - yet they are also chock full of cyanide, which is used in the recovery of microscopic particles of gold from the waste tailings of copper mines.
No country can hide from the dangers of carbon pollution
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
If we emit massive quantities of untested chemicals into the environment, some of them are bound to end up in places that surprise us, doing things that endanger us.
We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock.
