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TIL about Picher, a mining town in Oklahoma that was left so badly contaminated and unstable by decades of unrestricted lead and zinc mining that it was evacuated and declared uninhabitable by the EPA
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Abandoned Centralia, PA has been burning from the coal mine below for 60 years and will likely burn for another 250.
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All the towns in Oklahoma are uninhabitable.
Similar to Wittenoom in Western Australia
It ought to serve as model for Libertarianism : Big companies, little regulation, and a whole town poisoned.
Anybody with a problem about mask mandates should go there to live *(however brief it may be.)*
Still people living there too
I’ve been there several times. I grew up on a farm about an hour from Picher.
You want to know what is more messed up. Asphalt companies have secretly been using it in our city roads without public knowledge