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The net harm of pollution was drastically reduced. It's basic sanitation, not even a contest.
by SamReidHughes 8y ago
The net harm of pollution was drastically reduced. It's basic sanitation, not even a contest.
- GW150914 8y agoNot getting typhus from a rotting pile of horse is a definite win, but a Pyrrhic victory if we end up trashing the entire planet as a result of global warming. Less horse shit was a boon for sanitation in big cities, but TEL was a bone ride multi-generational disaster, ongoing in some parts. The car solves one problem of big city sanitation and replaced it with slow motion global catastrophe of pollution. Edit: Clarification, TEL is as you said, TetraEthyl Lead.
- carapace 8y agoTEL? ...Tetraethyllead?