Dr. Zach Bush
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A connected system.
And again, let me turn to Chernobyl for a moment because this is a pretty rad example of this.
The largest nuclear event, nuclear disaster that's ever been created in human history, maybe the Japan one is now exceeding it, but Chernobyl 30 years ago, it was only 1976 or something like that.
Chernobyl happens, huge nuclear waste dump into soil systems throughout the Siberian region there.
We have the immediate movement of humans out of the region out of fear of cancer.
And sure enough, all the humans that were in touch with that system, huge rates of thyroid cancer, renal disease, all kinds of things, you know, occurred.
Meanwhile, those soils are primarily inhabited by voles, a small little mouse-like creature that lives under the ground, looks halfway across a field mouse and a mole.
Those tiny little creatures have been eating the most radioactive soils on the planet for the last 30, 40 years.
It's almost 50 years now.
And so that 50 years of eating radioactive material, they're now radioactive.
So when you put a Geiger counter up next to one of those voles, it's not beep, beep, beep, beep.
It's just a continuous hum.
And so these are the most radioactive creatures on Earth.
Not a single case of pup deformities, no collapse of fertility.
In fact, the vole populations are thriving.
The predator to the vole in Chernobyl is the wolf.
And the Siberian wolf has absolutely quadrupled its population.
No birth defects, no cancer, no consequence to eating the voles that are highly radioactive.
And so these are the best examples of when a system, when a keystone species or otherwise is connected to its nature.
She will never allow an injury to occur that she doesn't allow or already have a solution for.
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