Fall of the Roman empire: lead. Fall of Western Civilization: PFAS
this post was submitted on 18 May 2024
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We already had leaded smog for decades when it was a gasoline additive. It correlates with a lot of the heightened violence in the 80s and could possibly explain boomerism.
Lead and expansionism. It’s a good thing we know better than to expect indefinite perpetual growth. lol
I mean, at this point, we know it's everywhere. This generation led paint/pipes. Wait until archeologists are like, "WTF were themselves people doing?"
Thank you Steven Harper for getting rid of the Experimental Lakes Area removing Canada safeguard against this shit.
Thank you so fucking much - Cancer
Much worse than we thought. How shocking. /s
Yeah whenever it comes to these potentially humanity exterminating issues, like pfas and climate change, every news item always has a "it's actually way worse than we expected and predicted" somewhere in it. Really gives joy to your day, doesn't it?
The water wars won’t come for us if we poison our well
Yep. And guess who will hold the power/money/people to remove the chemicals and guess who won’t.
This is systemic.
If PFAS (in particular PFOS) does turn out to have a cancer link, ho boy. It is just about everywhere at this point.
Maybe that's why younger people are getting certain cancers more often than in decades past.
They should sample dirt from the farms that use water treatment plant solids as fertilizer too. Probably find it there too.
PFAS are everywhere. Biosolids, in general, are great amendments though, once they have been composted
Oh goody