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Treated sewage is used for fertilizing crops. They line "compostable" goods (straws, plates) with PFAS and it goes into municipal compost. And where does that g
by coryrc 3y ago
Treated sewage is used for fertilizing crops. They line "compostable" goods (straws, plates) with PFAS and it goes into municipal compost. And where does that go?
For a long time we lived mostly avoiding the consequences of our pollution, but now it's everywhere in our food and water.
- hh3k0 3y ago> For a long time we lived mostly avoiding the consequences of our pollution, but now it's everywhere in our food and water. To expand on that, there are places in the USA where you breathe in forever chemicals when you take a hot shower.
- tekla 3y agoIt IS pretty cool to think that we are probably drinking water that was also drunk by dinosaurs millions of years ago.
- 2devnull 3y agoIt tastes different I’m sure.
- londons_explore 3y agoMixed with a small amount of chemical made by the 3M company that will make you grow tits and balls, when you probably wished you had only one...
- hh3k0 3y agoWho the hell wishes for one tit and/or one ball? /s
- ASalazarMX 3y agoAnd some said human civilization had mostly escaped natural selection. Humanity's evolution to coexist with its own pollution sure will be interesting, if global warming doesn't kill it first.
- bhouston 3y agoI was thinking the same recently. Being able to survive through a lot of environmental pollution is likely a major driver of evolution.
- KMag 3y agoOver what time frame do you believe global warming has a non-negligible chance of causing human extinction, as opposed to crashing populations, dramatically reducing quality of life, and/or destroying our current civilization?
- fuzzfactor 3y ago>Humanity's evolution to coexist with its own pollution sure will be interesting, if global warming doesn't kill it first. Naturally you would have to figure by definition that cave men lived in caves, but I would imagine with a population explosion there was an eventual housing shortage like we have never seen. Plus with diasporatization lots of early humans would have ended up or even started out in places without any caves to begin with. Not all of them would be unhoused, and I think it was the ones with robust shelters like caves who were most likely to have "indoor" fires and breathe lots of smoke of various kinds for generations. And after thousands of years of natural selection I would think those possessing such stable (rent-controlled?) dwellings would be the ones most resistant to the damage caused by smoke inhalation, if not other pollutants. It could happen. And how do you think these people felt about global warming when their Ice Age started melting down?
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