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Everything is fiiiiiiiine.... I mean we're only talking about:
Alkylated lead compounds Polycyclic organic matter (POM) Mercury Hexachlorobenzene Polychlorinated biphenyls(PCB) 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzofurans (TCDF) 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin
So the cancer rates, neurotoxicity rates, kidney and liver disease rates, and general bad for you vibes might keep happening. Its all for progress right?.... Right?
If people don't want these things in their air, why don't they just vote with their wallets and NOT BUY products that create these byproducts, or move to a place that better suits their snowflake-lungs?
Worst case, if you develop cancer after 5 years of exposure, you can exercise your right to sue the company for damages and be made whole again.
We don't need government hamstringing industry when the free market can sort these things out!
/s (because who the fuck knows these days)
Fucking poe's law. I thought you were serious until the last sentence. Even the idea of being made whole isn't something beyond what some fuckers would claim.
You will actually get some hardcore libertarians unironically making the argument that regulations are completely unnecessary as long as you have a strong court system to award damages in the event that harm is actually done to an individual.
Which, sure, in a frictionless, spherical universe full of perfectly rational actors that exists only in a textbook, maybe that argument has some merit.
In the real world it means arguing that disfiguring people or giving them horrific terminal cancer should just be a line item on your ledger, next to rent and breakroom coffee.
wtf leaded gasoline is back too? (there are very few other uses for alkyllead compounds and it would be hard to make it accidentally)
"I call it beautiful, clean lead. I told my people, never use the word lead unless you put beautiful clean before it."
I mean, they have to make new republicans somehow
I thought that's what the podcasts are for.
That's the paint, the toxins are the primer.
Hey, my doc just said I was low on vitamin Mercury Hexachlorobenzene Polychlorinated biphenyls(PCB) 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzofurans (TCDF) 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin. I'm saved!
I think you made a typo.
/s
These are mostly combustion byproducts btw. Mercury emissions come from coal fired powerplants, PCBs are an old and long discontinued type of nonflammable coolant, HCB also isn't even manufactured probably