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The funny thing about tobacco is that it was widely known to be very toxic for hundreds of years before cigarettes were invented. Likewise people realized that
by formerly_proven 5y ago
The funny thing about tobacco is that it was widely known to be very toxic for hundreds of years before cigarettes were invented. Likewise people realized that leaded petrol (and its fumes) would be toxic, the state and petrol industry disregarded this because leaded petrol was seen as alternativlos.
Science has a fairly decent track record at finding these things. Policy has a fairly shit track record at responding.
- Gravityloss 5y agoLead paint was banned here in 1929. I think in USA in the seventies?
- marcosdumay 5y agoYet lead was known to be toxic since ancient times. As the GP said, science has a good track record of identifying those things.
- Gravityloss 5y agoYeah, so cigarettes, climate change, endocrine disruptors, soil depletion, dioxines, phosphorus catastrophe.
- marcosdumay 5y agoOk, I think phosphorous catastrophes were not predicted.
- Gravityloss 5y agoThere's a global one ongoing. Basically phosphorus that has accumulated over a long time is flushed to the seas in a hundred years.