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> It’s very difficult (if not impossible) to prove chemicals are safe. Yes, but it's certainly possible to rule out entire classes of harms by asking the right

> It’s very difficult (if not impossible) to prove chemicals are safe. Yes, but it's certainly possible to rule out entire classes of harms by asking the right questions before putting a product on the market. Maybe 100% safe is impossible but 99% is still a pretty low bar/standard when it comes to health/pollution risks. The problem is in the current situation, corporations push toxic products on everyone that they either know to be toxic or really don't want to find out. Then we wait for people to get sick and die, then finally after it becomes a too big scandal for corporate PR and government regulators to pretend they didn't see, they start to maybe study the problem and issue guidelines. This timeline is so broken and we see the same thing in the medical world where substances we'd known to be harmful for years/decades kept on being marketed and prescribed to unknowing patients. I personally have no faith in governments (who created or benefited from these abuses), but if you're a believer in regulations, the bare minimum they can do is publish 100% of toxicity claims/studies without any delay from submission (public inbox). This could help in that whistleblowers are often coming forward with such claims (such as the EDF nuclear whistleblower lately) but it's hard for them to find a platform, and for the public to get informed.

fuzzfactor 4y ago
>corporations push toxic products on everyone One aspect we have, is defense materials being mass-produced for potentially large-scale warfare, then really raking in the bucks when a consumer application can be found. That way everybody wants some, not just soldiers. And if it's consumable, so much better since that calls for continuous mass-production. And where's it all going to end up? What part of the environment? Well, that's diferent for different materials. Sometimes a material itself is highly disruptive, other times it's the vast quantities that end up being mass-produced. Even then the risk of an unforseen toxic outcome has always been underestimated.

fuzzfactor 4y ago

>corporations push toxic products on everyone One aspect we have, is defense materials being mass-produced for potentially large-scale warfare, then really raking in the bucks when a consumer application can be found. That way everybody wants some, not just soldiers. And if it's consumable, so much better since that calls for continuous mass-production. And where's it all going to end up? What part of the environment? Well, that's diferent for different materials. Sometimes a material itself is highly disruptive, other times it's the vast quantities that end up being mass-produced. Even then the risk of an unforseen toxic outcome has always been underestimated.