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Not to sound too cynical, but humanity has rarely (or ever) been able to react in a coordinated timely fashion to any event threating it in any way. That is un
by thorvaldsson 4y ago
Not to sound too cynical, but humanity has rarely (or ever) been able to react in a coordinated timely fashion to any event threating it in any way.
That is until we reach the brink.
Think of the Montreal Protocol from the 80's, a treaty for phasing out and eventually banning CFC/HCFC's in an effort to protect and hopefully restore the ozone layer. The protocol was in response to a dramatic seasonal depletion of the ozone layer over Antarctica in the 80's.
To me, from everything I read and hear about PFAS pollution, it would seem we are at the brink again in terms of those chemicals.
- gruez 4y agoCFCs were a nice confluence of events because there was a ready alternative available for CFCs. The same doesn't exist for PFAS.