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d0mine on Jan 22, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Do Animals in Chernobyl’s Fallout Zone Glow?

Humans deal with it just fine.

  In 2009, there were 31 countries reported in which at least 10% of children under five died.

For comparison:

  In 2011, the world average was 51 (5.1%), down from 87 (8.7%) in 1990.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_mortality

mikeash on Jan 22, 2013 [–]

We "deal with it" in the sense that we can survive and even thrive in such an environment. But we don't "deal with it just fine" in terms of accepting it when we could easily change it by e.g. avoiding a particular area.

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