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Watch Dark Waters if you haven't, which tells the story of a lawyer who broke the case against Dupont producing forever chemicals in huge quantities long after
by spodek 6y ago
Watch Dark Waters if you haven't, which tells the story of a lawyer who broke the case against Dupont producing forever chemicals in huge quantities long after the evidence was overwhelming they cause cancer, birth defects, endocrine disruption, and more.
Also read the Intercept series, The Teflon Toxin:
DuPont and the Chemistry of Deception: https://theintercept.com/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-deception https://theintercept.com/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-decepti....
Other important pieces out there.
When the Senate questioned General Austin, today named Secretary of Defense, they asked him about forever chemicals because they've contaminated military bases so much.
- paulmd 6y agoSame for BPA. Widely used, now it's know to be an endocrine disrupter, now that there's a public outcry they've switched to some other undisclosed chemical that probably does the same thing (as a chemical analogue) or some other bad thing that will take 50 years to figure out. It's gonna keep happening until we flip the regulatory model on its head and require companies to prove the chemicals they're using are safe, which will never happen, because god forbid we don't let capitalism poison us all so we can have non-stick pans. The weird thing is that this explosion of new chemical compounds has really only happened in the last 120 years or so. It never used to be a given that we had to do things this way.
- AlgorithmicTime 6y agoThis is just an outgrowth of our, IMO, reasonable legal presumption of "that which is not forbidden is allowed." Seems much preferable to the alternative "that which is not allowed is forbidden."
- nerdbaggy 6y agoI can not agree more. Dark Waters was amazing, but disgusting what is happening.