I'm sure there are acceptable corner cases, but when everything from your new sofa to the trainers you bought are covered in the stuff in the form of fire retar

I'm sure there are acceptable corner cases, but when everything from your new sofa to the trainers you bought are covered in the stuff in the form of fire retardants, we're just sloshing the stuff around. Most of the uses are not due to necessity, but because these dangerous chemicals are cheaper to produce and have higher margins. Or use of them has second order margin increases by allowing us to do other things cheaper. Humanity is terrible at long term harm consideration. Unless the danger is immediate we can't really feel the urgency. Look how we all live, as if we won't die. It's sadly the human condition, and that bug in our cognition may be our downfall. What happens when the urgency comes and the damage we did can't be undone, regardless of our ingenuity?