Mercury is occurring naturally in the environment, so we must shut down factories to save the environment from mercury that’s not coming from factories.
Some mercury in the atmosphere comes from volcanoes and forest fires (since all plants contain at least small amounts of mercury). However, by far, most mercury in the atmosphere is human-caused, and it mainly comes from three sources: burning coal and oil (since the plants these fuels came from contained mercury), incineration of garbage (mostly due to batteries and fluorescent bulbs) and cremation (from dental fillings).
Didn’t the ecos decide it wasn’t atmospheric, but rather fish born concentrations or some such?
And, in an attempt to be serious for a sec, does mercury occur at all, naturally, in water sources? Seems lots of minerals do, salt and such. I know uranium in ground water is an issue in places long the Sierra Nevadas because of natural deposits of the stuff, as well as some from older mining efforts.
Not saying human causes should or could be nil, just curious about how the natural part might also be working in to the problem.
“However, by far, most mercury in the atmosphere is human-caused..”
Sir that is patently absurd. The output from one vulcano (pinatubo, St Helens, etc) can exceed all human sources of mercury emissions for decades.
Good grief did you invent that sitting around the breakfast table or are you smoking the algore reefer.
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