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We be poisoning ourselves in 100 different ways every day


It seems we are still better than peak poisoning a few decades ago with heavy metals, asbestos, arsenic, etc being used in everything.


Most of these were only revealed 20-50 years after the fact, no? I think we don't know yet in how many ways we're being poisone, because the policy seems to be use random chemicals now, ask questions later.

Also maybe add phosphorus and radium to the list.


I’m pretty sure they were all known to be extremely toxic the whole time they were used but the population didn’t care that much about being slowly poisoned.


Exactly. There are even plenty of things people willingly ingest today which we will look back on with awe.


Well, those still poison everyone to this day, we've just gentrified it so most people in the Global North are less affected. Forever chemicals and microplastics on the other hand seem to affect everyone globally because you can't really filter them out once they're in the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe.

Maybe those billionaires obsessing about constructing their survival shelters weren't preparing for social collapse after all but just trying to create a habitat for themselves that isolates them from all of this?


That's true but if we can work to make it 99 ways soon then we can aim for 98 ways next.


I agree. But we also need to stop introducing new ways so this doesn’t become a treadmill of needless suffering. We need to review and test the chemicals we allow onto the market far more rigorously.


Rachel Carson warned us about this sixty years ago, but here we are.


At least they have to keep paying politicians to do it now. In the early-mid 20th century it was a free for all.


I’ll drink to that!




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