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...Smart mechanical pets (such as smart dogs, smart parrots, smart cats, smart fish, etc.) will be held responsible for any deaths or maiming they may cause unless...
...otherwise hard at work on the nation's waterways. Unless we are lobstermen or whalers, we set out in boats in order to refresh ourselves in another dimension. The charm of the electric boat is that it allows us to navigate in the silence that is the medium of fish moving through water...
...Minamata is the Japanese town where for 40 years a plastics company discharged mercury into the bay from which most of the town's fish were caught. Scores, perhaps hundreds of people subsequently died and thousands developed crippling illnesses, including paralysis and severe psychological problems. Children were born with deformities, the images of their arched, agonized bodies a perpetual reminder of the black underside of the 20th century's industrial triumphalism. That tragedy, Pressman points out, was the product of 27 tons of mercury over 40 years. "Imagine what these amounts could do in Manado...
...Minamata after the same transformation took place. Guesses about how long the process will take range from two to 10 years. But nobody disputes that the conversion will happen. And when it does, Manado will be in grave danger. In Minamata, the population subsisted largely on a diet of fish caught in their bay. So too do the people of Manado. Every night, hundreds of stalls selling sea bream and garoupa and squid and prawns and crab and eel line the road that curves around the bay. "The Manadanese love to eat," says Limbong with a rare smile...
...moment, mercury levels in fish caught in the Manado straits are normal, says Bonny Sompie, who has just taken over as the province's most senior environmental official. Sompie is at pains to play down the mercury problem. His estimates put the amount entering the environment every year at about 15 tons or lower, but he acknowledges the dangers of contamination. "It could turn into a national crisis" if something isn't done, he concedes. But the safari-suited former professor of civil engineering says there is little he can do to stop the flood of mercury...