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It's a nuanced question, given the fact that toxicity depends on many characteristics: method of exposure, dose to body weight, bioaccumulation, etc. For a sub
by ethbr0 4y ago
It's a nuanced question, given the fact that toxicity depends on many characteristics: method of exposure, dose to body weight, bioaccumulation, etc.
For a substance that needs to be ingested in high doses for an average human (even a small child) over an extended period of time, what's the harm of having a contaminated park?
You have relatively infrequent exposure, and you likely don't eat / drink from the area. That's a helluva lot safer than living in a "less-polluted" industrial site, but where you could build up toxic exposure over time.
- logifail 4y ago> For a substance that needs to be ingested in high doses for an average human (even a small child) over an extended period of time, what's the harm of having a contaminated park? You have relatively infrequent exposure, and you likely don't eat / drink from the area Based on my experiences with how our children behave when they're playing in parks, I much prefer the thought of parks not being contaminated! Small kids typically come home from parks dirty. Heck, small kids come away from pretty much anything dirty :)
- code_duck 4y agoI agree. Children have a much higher hand-to-mouth propensity than adults and are also more affected by certain types of toxins.