> Like reading the vintage ads recommending cocaine to help your tooth ache. Cocaine didn't result in large scale environmental damage, to this day it's still

> Like reading the vintage ads recommending cocaine to help your tooth ache. Cocaine didn't result in large scale environmental damage, to this day it's still in widespread medical use as a local anesthetic. Imho a much more apt example would be something like "plutonium toothpaste" and the fact how humanity has irreversibly changed Earths biosphere by introducing large quantities of atmospheric plutonium 239 during the countless nuclear weapon tests [0]. Any acknowledgement of potential deadly consequences out of that mostly exist in some fringe awareness [1], and pretty much never comes up in any debates around the risks and dangers of nuclear as a source of energy generation. [0] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0096340215581357 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0096340215581357 [1] https://qz.com/1163140/us-nuclear-tests-killed-american-civilians-on-a-scale-comparable-to-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/ https://qz.com/1163140/us-nuclear-tests-killed-american-civi...