Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement
sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 3 days agoThomas Midgley Jr is the same guy that invented leaded gas and also invented freon (chlorofluorocarbons). Imagine being the architect of not one but two of the greatest environmental calamities of the industrial age.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
And he also died from complications from polio. Not actual complications mind you, he was ensnared in harnesses he made to.get around after having suffered from Polio. Made worse by his poor health having worked on TEL.