>The intuition that we should globoindustrially produce man-made materials and dispose of novel waste materials in our water supplies until proven toxic and can

>The intuition that we should globoindustrially produce man-made materials and dispose of novel waste materials in our water supplies until proven toxic and cancerous is a mistake, and we should be coming at the question from the other side, assume naturally occurring materials are less harmful than man-made ones until we have evidence indicating otherwise. >"we've checked and everything is all groovy man nothing wrong in this asbestos here!" Asbestos being used as an example of a "globoindustrially man-made materials" and how we should "assume naturally occurring materials are less harmful" is absolutely great considering that asbestos is a naturally occurring material that has been in use since the Stone Age. Quite literally the opposite of the line of reasoning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos >Archaeological studies have found evidence of asbestos being used as far back as the Stone Age to strengthen ceramic pots