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Cesium-soaked truffles may keep fallout in an environment’s food web

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Re: Cesium-soaked truffles may keep fallout in an environment’s food web

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I was thinking that the complaint was primarily about the CO2, but your comment makes me realize that they could have been concerned about the radiation aspects in the air too...

Radioactive boar flesh, as with all other biomass, is already in the biosphere , that is, it is not fossilised carbon being reintroduced. Contributions to increased greenhouse gasses would effectively be net zero. (Note that non-combusted boars are already expelling CO2 through respiration, as well as more potent gases such as methane through metabolism and decomposition of solid wastes. Methane production through hu…

Yes, that was my point originally.

Re: Cesium-soaked truffles may keep fallout in an environment’s food web

#52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Radioactive boar flesh, as with all other biomass, is already in the biosphere , that is, it is not fossilised carbon being reintroduced. Contributions to increased greenhouse gasses would effectively be net zero. (Note that non-combusted boars are already expelling CO2 through respiration, as well as more potent gases such as methane through metabolism and decomposition of solid wastes. Methane production through hu…

Yes, that was my point originally.

Got it.
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