Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "How Toxic Century-Old Oil Wells Trap Thousands Of Workers In Java | Risky Business" video.

  1. Yet it earns them more than growing, say corn, apparently. Not so much a "trap" as an opportunity. Imagine taking it away, what happens to those families dependent on that income.
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  2.  @deadeyeduncan5022  Yeah and I don't buy it, right around the wells, sure. But not in general, petrol has been seeping out in places all over the planet, for 100 M yrs, entire ecosystems depend on it in the Gulf of Mexico sea floor. It's organic and slowly breaks down over time. Asphalt roads get eaten by microbes from below and plants grow in the cracks just fine, after 50 yrs of abandonment it's pretty much reclaimed by nature.
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