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No it isn't. There's no "forever chemical" page on Wikipedia, so I'm not sure where you're getting this idea from. Disregarding any nomenclature, in just focu

No it isn't. There's no "forever chemical" page on Wikipedia, so I'm not sure where you're getting this idea from. Disregarding any nomenclature, in just focusing on the terminology in isolation, water could be considered a forever chemical. This is an example of why use of the term "forever chemical" comes off as a scare tactic or disingenuous. Of course, for dying media institutions, PFAS can't just be a pollutant. It has to be literally forever! EDIT: Way to go missing the entire point, all of you.

Etheryte 3y ago
You're fighting strawmen, I didn't say "search for forever chemicals on wikipedia", I said "search for forever chemicals wikipedia". The first result on Google is the article about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances which includes the source of the term.
esafak 3y ago
WP's autocomplete returns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_substances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_subst...
sjsdaiuasgdia 3y ago
Water occurs in nature without human intervention. I don't think the same can be said for PFAS. For a big chunk of the industrial age we've operated on the assumption that the global environment is big enough and capable enough to just eat or neutralize just about anything we dump into it. I think there is utility in defining a category of human-produced things that we have been able to determine the global environment can't eat or neutralize, and also that cause harm when people are exposed to them. You could give this category a lot of potential names, but "forever chemicals" conveys the idea pretty effectively IMO.
Ensorceled 3y ago
Typing "forever chemical wikipedia" into DDG gets you this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_organic_pollutant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_organic_pollutant into google, gets you this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_substances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_subst... "forever chemical" in either Google or DDG gives a lot of good links explaining what they are.

Etheryte 3y ago

You're fighting strawmen, I didn't say "search for forever chemicals on wikipedia", I said "search for forever chemicals wikipedia". The first result on Google is the article about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances which includes the source of the term.

esafak 3y ago

WP's autocomplete returns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_substances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_subst...

sjsdaiuasgdia 3y ago

Water occurs in nature without human intervention. I don't think the same can be said for PFAS. For a big chunk of the industrial age we've operated on the assumption that the global environment is big enough and capable enough to just eat or neutralize just about anything we dump into it. I think there is utility in defining a category of human-produced things that we have been able to determine the global environment can't eat or neutralize, and also that cause harm when people are exposed to them. You could give this category a lot of potential names, but "forever chemicals" conveys the idea pretty effectively IMO.

Ensorceled 3y ago

Typing "forever chemical wikipedia" into DDG gets you this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_organic_pollutant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_organic_pollutant into google, gets you this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_substances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_subst... "forever chemical" in either Google or DDG gives a lot of good links explaining what they are.