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[Charger]

Well I wasn't speaking just about turism though...but the actual population of the island.

Skin cancer isn't just for tourists you know...

This is again one of those things where I cannot find any justification for the "environmentalism"...They are putting a small potential threat to the coral ahead of human well being, which is pretty much totally insane.

And there are far greater threats to the corals than one small island using sun block.

And I'm sure in few years when there is gonna be a spike on the skin cancer statistics people are going "Hey what's this now? How did this happen?!"

[Typhon]

@Tyr66 - you are absolutely right about the rhino horns.  There is zero evidence that the consumption of the powder produced from them, helps humans in any way.

@BOGBLAST - thanks for reminding everyone that Al Sharpton is an A-hole with a capital A.  Also, the legendary show "Law & Order" once did an episode in its first season using that case as a bases for the story.

[AnnoMundi]

Funny I remarked on Bill Cosby and no one seems to comment, there was no physical evidence there, it happened years ago and basically just women coming forward accusing Bill without physical evidence.

No one cares?

[Charger]

Funny I remarked on Bill Cosby and no one seems to comment, there was no physical evidence there, it happened years ago and basically just women coming forward accusing Bill without physical evidence.

No one cares?

Well I think the thing about Cosby's case was that there were so many women coming forward...also there seemed to have been some other witnesses too. I think the burden of proof was met even without any concrete evidence....hard to say as I did not really follow the case.

[BOGBLAST]

Not very local but it deserves to be said :
fact: sun creams kill corals. Palau Islands, Micronesia, will ban the use of these creams on beaches in 2020 to save their natural heritage. Very brave .

And what "think tank" or university did this study? This kind of thing reminds me of the food warnings: don't consume eggs, coffee or red wine!!! Next week they have nutritional benefits.

I'm sure if you started dumping 55 gallon drums of sunscreen on the reefs sure, the coral will die. But the amount that gets into the water from swimmers must be miniscule. A lot of sunscreens claim to be waterproof as well.

[Typhon]

A lot of sunscreens claim to be waterproof as well.

That's what I was thinking.   I've never been much of a beach goer, so I'm no expert, but I thought most sunscreens were waterproof.  Otherwise, every time you take a dip you would have to apply it all over again.

[AnnoMundi]

Funny I remarked on Bill Cosby and no one seems to comment, there was no physical evidence there, it happened years ago and basically just women coming forward accusing Bill without physical evidence.

No one cares?

Well I think the thing about Cosby's case was that there were so many women coming forward...also there seemed to have been some other witnesses too. I think the burden of proof was met even without any concrete evidence....hard to say as I did not really follow the case.

The guy is filthy rich of course there’s going to be a lot of women coming out of the woodwork.

[Billy Underdog]

Funny I remarked on Bill Cosby and no one seems to comment, there was no physical evidence there, it happened years ago and basically just women coming forward accusing Bill without physical evidence.

No one cares?

Well I think the thing about Cosby's case was that there were so many women coming forward...also there seemed to have been some other witnesses too. I think the burden of proof was met even without any concrete evidence....hard to say as I did not really follow the case.

The guy is filthy rich of course there’s going to be a lot of women coming out of the woodwork.

Yeah, just like Jimmy Savile... 

[Tyr66]

Not very local but it deserves to be said :
fact: sun creams kill corals. Palau Islands, Micronesia, will ban the use of these creams on beaches in 2020 to save their natural heritage. Very brave .

And what "think tank" or university did this study? This kind of thing reminds me of the food warnings: don't consume eggs, coffee or red wine!!! Next week they have nutritional benefits.

I'm sure if you started dumping 55 gallon drums of sunscreen on the reefs sure, the coral will die. But the amount that gets into the water from swimmers must be miniscule. A lot of sunscreens claim to be waterproof as well.

Everything is a matter of quantity. But red wine is pure shit. Be careful not to overuse eggs and coffee, for obvious reasons of cholesterol and excitants.

"In Hawaii, more than half of the coral reefs laundered between 2014 and 2015. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the nine million tourists who visit the archipelago each year, dump nearly 6,000 tons of sunscreen into the sea. The governor, David Ige, reacted. He signed, on July 3, a law prohibiting the sale of sunscreens containing chemicals likely to weaken the corals.

By 2021, it will no longer be possible to swim in the Hawaiian sea after putting sunscreen. "This new law will ban at least 70% of sunscreens currently on the market," reports the scientific journal Chemistry World.
Several studies, notably that of 2015, have shown that sunscreen is, in addition to global warming, one of the causes of the death of a certain coral reef. Oxybenzone, used in over 3,500 solar products worldwide, is one of the components of sunscreen. It has the effect of protecting us from ultraviolet rays. But it is also the main poisonous agent that attacks the corals.

It causes morphological deformation of coral larvae, damages their DNA and acts as an endocrine disruptor. Consequence: the coral locks itself in its own skeleton and ends up dying. And most of the time, when the corals suffer, they lose their color and become white: this is the phenomenon of coral bleaching."
from a France Inter article .

[AnnoMundi]

Funny I remarked on Bill Cosby and no one seems to comment, there was no physical evidence there, it happened years ago and basically just women coming forward accusing Bill without physical evidence.

No one cares?

Well I think the thing about Cosby's case was that there were so many women coming forward...also there seemed to have been some other witnesses too. I think the burden of proof was met even without any concrete evidence....hard to say as I did not really follow the case.

The guy is filthy rich of course there’s going to be a lot of women coming out of the woodwork.

Yeah, just like Jimmy Savile... 

I don’t think you can compare Savile to Cosby.

[Billy Underdog]

Funny I remarked on Bill Cosby and no one seems to comment, there was no physical evidence there, it happened years ago and basically just women coming forward accusing Bill without physical evidence.

No one cares?

Well I think the thing about Cosby's case was that there were so many women coming forward...also there seemed to have been some other witnesses too. I think the burden of proof was met even without any concrete evidence....hard to say as I did not really follow the case.

The guy is filthy rich of course there’s going to be a lot of women coming out of the woodwork.

Yeah, just like Jimmy Savile... 

I don’t think you can compare Savile to Cosby.

By your reasoning Savile is innocent too...

[BOGBLAST]

Too many Cosby stories with the same M.O. Drug them then rape them. Dirtbag. I'm sure Harvey Weinstein is a model citizen too. (Insert vomit emoji here, couldn't find it)

[AnnoMundi]

Funny I remarked on Bill Cosby and no one seems to comment, there was no physical evidence there, it happened years ago and basically just women coming forward accusing Bill without physical evidence.

No one cares?

Well I think the thing about Cosby's case was that there were so many women coming forward...also there seemed to have been some other witnesses too. I think the burden of proof was met even without any concrete evidence....hard to say as I did not really follow the case.

The guy is filthy rich of course there’s going to be a lot of women coming out of the woodwork.

Yeah, just like Jimmy Savile... 

I don’t think you can compare Savile to Cosby.

By your reasoning Savile is innocent too...

of course not Billy, just that the lack of physical evidence and going by several people’s testimonies is kind of dangerous.

[Billy Underdog]

Funny I remarked on Bill Cosby and no one seems to comment, there was no physical evidence there, it happened years ago and basically just women coming forward accusing Bill without physical evidence.

No one cares?

Well I think the thing about Cosby's case was that there were so many women coming forward...also there seemed to have been some other witnesses too. I think the burden of proof was met even without any concrete evidence....hard to say as I did not really follow the case.

The guy is filthy rich of course there’s going to be a lot of women coming out of the woodwork.

Yeah, just like Jimmy Savile... 

I don’t think you can compare Savile to Cosby.

By your reasoning Savile is innocent too...

of course not Billy, just that the lack of physical evidence and going by several people’s testimonies is kind of dangerous.

That is what happened in the Savile case..

[AnnoMundi]

Funny I remarked on Bill Cosby and no one seems to comment, there was no physical evidence there, it happened years ago and basically just women coming forward accusing Bill without physical evidence.

No one cares?

Well I think the thing about Cosby's case was that there were so many women coming forward...also there seemed to have been some other witnesses too. I think the burden of proof was met even without any concrete evidence....hard to say as I did not really follow the case.

The guy is filthy rich of course there’s going to be a lot of women coming out of the woodwork.

Yeah, just like Jimmy Savile... 

I don’t think you can compare Savile to Cosby.

By your reasoning Savile is innocent too...

of course not Billy, just that the lack of physical evidence and going by several people’s testimonies is kind of dangerous.

That is what happened in the Savile case..

Sorry Billy I’m not too familiar with the Savile case, I know the guy was a creep of some sort and into necrophilia and a supposed devout Catholic who even got papal awards, I’d have to read about it.