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> all the shit you dump/burn ends up in your food or water eventually but most that shit doesn't survive the journey intact, being out in the elements and bomb
by pengaru 1y ago
> all the shit you dump/burn ends up in your food or water eventually
but most that shit doesn't survive the journey intact, being out in the elements and bombarded by the sun isn't kind to most things
hence the focus on "forever chemicals"
- Zigurd 1y agoFuture archaeologists will wonder that we first fouled our nest from edge to edge with lead in gasoline, and then there's that radioactive layer, and following immediately after the forever chemicals layer.
- pengaru 1y agoThe anthropocene, aka the petroradiata layer
- lm28469 1y agoBut still a lot of things do, pesticides following the rain cycles is a good example. We're killing the biodiversity and ourselves with it. We already almost entirely rely on synthetically amending fields with petrol byproducts to feed ourselves, tomorrow we might have to manually pollinate crops when insects won't be enough to do the job. PFAS are a problem, co2 is a problem, but we have dozens of other very big problems that are partially, if not entirely, obscured https://usrtk.org/healthwire/banned-pesticides-found-in-clouds/ https://usrtk.org/healthwire/banned-pesticides-found-in-clou...
- bossyTeacher 1y ago> We already almost entirely rely on synthetically amending fields with petrol byproducts to feed ourselves elaborate please
- tremon 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process > Nearly 50% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated from the Haber–Bosch process. Thus, the Haber process [enabled] the global population to increase from 1.6 billion in 1900 to 7.7 billion by November 2018.
- NetMageSCW 1y agoI assume that means we have to use fertilizer to ensure we can produce enough food crop.