I do woodworking in some shop space I rent in northern Minneapolis. The building complex used to be a General Mills research laboratory from about the 20s throu

I do woodworking in some shop space I rent in northern Minneapolis. The building complex used to be a General Mills research laboratory from about the 20s through the 50s. Reportedly, Cheerios were invented there. At the time it was a relatively rural area, so how do you dispose of your research chemicals? Dump 'em in a pit out back! Now, it's a fairly densely populated urban neighborhood. It was declared a superfund site in the 80s, and they're still monitoring the site and working on nearby properties for remediation, decades later. https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/environment/hazardous/sites/gmivi.html https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/environment/hazar... > I simply can't understand the mentality earlier generations had re: environmental contamination. I hear it in my father (71) re: anthropogenic climate change ("I can't believe the activities of humans could change such a large system...") and I imagine similar sentiments were in the minds of people dumping PCB or lead into the ground. It's chilling to me. It is bonkers, but you still see it all the time. "Oh, my choice to drive a 10 MPG SUV to work every day doesn't matter. I'm only one person."