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Tell that to Hattie Louise and Thomas Midgley Sr, whose child had an enormous impact on the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr https://en.w
by DonHopkins 3y ago
Tell that to Hattie Louise and Thomas Midgley Sr, whose child had an enormous impact on the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
>His legacy is one of inventing the two chemicals that did the greatest environmental damage. Environmental historian J. R. McNeill stated that he "had more adverse impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history." Author Bill Bryson remarked that he possessed "an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny." Science writer Fred Pearce described him as a "one-man environmental disaster".
- immibis 3y agoEveryone is someone's child. Attributing all the deeds anyone does to their parent is ridiculously reductive.