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Someday, scholars will write the long, sordid history of how industrial chemicals have been virtually unregulated for many decades. Thousands of novel compounds
by chmaynard 7y ago
Someday, scholars will write the long, sordid history of how industrial chemicals have been virtually unregulated for many decades. Thousands of novel compounds have been introduced into the environment in enormous quantities without any serious clinical studies of their long-term effects on human health and the health of the natural world.
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- m463 7y agoThis has been happening for centuries. I think of the mercury used in gold mining in the 1800's as well as this book from the 1960's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring I also read when the USSR came apart the world started to find out the scope of hidden environmental problems. "Heavy metal pollution near Norilsk is so severe that it has now become economically feasible to mine surface soil, as the soil has acquired such high concentrations of platinum and palladium." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norilsk#Pollution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norilsk#Pollution