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		ClumsyPilot on Feb 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The toxic tide of ship breaking We have dunped so much mercury into the ocean, that you can get poisoning if you eat tuna too often

jojobas on Feb 25, 2023 [–]

Wrong, it's about the food chain concentrating mostly natural mercury in long-lived predator species.

>Mercury is an element the emissions of which from its natural sources exceed its anthropogenic emissions.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5013138/

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