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[โ€“] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My thoughts go to a lot of our stored and operational fuel supplies. Nuclear fuel (both civil and weapon) would eventually become exposed through lack of storage container maintinance and cooling starting meltdown reactions in their localized environments. Oil extraction, distribution, and refining systems are automated to an extent but somewhere a tank is going ng to rupture or just run out of space and then it's all getting into the environment, likely at sea to have what effects that may cause.

[โ€“] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, yeah. If we suddenly disappeared, there'd be so many environmental catastrophes.

[โ€“] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm sure it'd level off, but a driver falling asleep at the wheel on the highway tends to cause problems. If the BP spill in the Gulf had nobody trying to cap it off who knows how long it'd have kept going.