Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement
catsakimbo@lemm.ee 3 days agothey were almost entirely safe for the occupants of the building
So would you live in a house your whole life that’s “almost” entirely safe? I don’t think I would
I did in Chicago. And I absolutely would again, because it makes my house much less likely to burn down from e.g. an electrical fire.
I quit smoking a decade ago; my risk of lung cancer was–is–far, far higher from smoking than it ever would have been from living in a house with asbestos insulation in the walls and around pipes.
Millions of people do and have. They are again almost entirely fine.
I do. My ceiling almost certainly has asbestos in it. I just don’t touch it.
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There are plenty of things that you deal with on a daily basis that are significantly more dangerous than asbestos. And if it had been treated like the hazardous material that it is as soon as we knew it was hazardous, then it would still be used just like all the other hazardous shit we deal with daily. However, as is the usual story, companies not only hid what they knew, but outright lied about its dangers. They called it a miracle material with no downsides. And it is amazingly good at what it does, so it was put in fucking everything, much like AI is today. And so people died for profit. A lot of people.
mogranja@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Like that sandwich with “recipe created by AI” on the label?
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
funny how history rhymes. I think the confluence of AI and rising fascism is going to kill a lot more people than asbestos if we don’t get our shit together. probably too late now.