> If there was something like Lead Poisoning going around, information spreads so quickly we'd know about it. If said lead poisoning was profitable, then we'd

> If there was something like Lead Poisoning going around, information spreads so quickly we'd know about it. If said lead poisoning was profitable, then we'd mostly be busy belittling the negative effects for decades, until they couldn't be denied/ignored anymore, at which point most of the damage will already have been done, as it happened with tetraethyllead [0]. Another example would be the massive money in tobacco and how for decades this allowed certain profit-interests to dictate the public-health discourse around smoking it or how oil companies knew about their impact on climate change for decades before it became a widely-recognized problem [1]. There is no telling what other things that we consider "harmless" now will later turn out as having absolutely disastrous effects. Very similar to how people living in Victorian times filled their homes with all kinds of deadly things because they were considered convenient at the time [2]. With the luxury of hindsight, it's easy for us to go "Wow, people back then were kinda stupid", but I have no doubt that 100-200 years from now people will look at our current ways of living and come to very similar conclusions about us. To keep this on-topic: Maybe us blasting the environment with EM radiation is also a contributing factor bee colonies collapsing, as it might make it more difficult for bees to find their source of nutrition? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#History [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_cont... [2] https://youtu.be/K3Jef7i7v1U https://youtu.be/K3Jef7i7v1U