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We’re not having our blood poisoned from the remnants of clay pots and trees.
by user3939382 4y ago
We’re not having our blood poisoned from the remnants of clay pots and trees.
- aperson_hello 4y agoWe kind of are from coal...
- gonzo41 4y agoWell the air's generally cleaner now than earlier times in the industrial revolution. If you think about pm2 and not co2 conc. Just look at the photo's of london when people burn coal for residential heating.
- themitigating 4y agoThanks to environmentalists who have to fight tooth and nail against other people who put human progress above all else
- bell-cot 4y agoThe annual ups and downs of Ancient Rome's economy can be tracked via lead in ice cores drawn from glaciers in Greenland. ( https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/greenland-ice-cores-track-roman-lead-pollution-in-year-by-year-detail/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/greenland-ice-cores-... )
- themitigating 4y agoThey weren't widely aware of its dangers (I know a few wrote about the dangers) and this is whataboutism
- bell-cot 4y ago"Found the facts unpalatable, and thus widely ignored them" seems a better description of the Roman situation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_poisoning#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_poisoning#History Sounds darn similar to what modern humans are doing, eh?
- edgyquant 4y agoYou’ve just moved the goal post
- themitigating 4y agoI don't think so. Either way I made a mistake. The article is pointing out that lead use can track the Roman economy because of the levels of it use, nothing about its dangers. My general point was that most people were illiterate, proper science was almost never done, mysticism, etc and knowledge about hazards to the environment were not discussed. Therefore the decisions back then didn't consider environmental issues so it's not a good comparison to what's happening today.