Someone will call not wanting lead poisoning woke and that will be that.
Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials
Fleur_@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Honestly I don’t think we’re socially responsible enough to end something like lead poisoning these days.
Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There’s actually a lot of work going into documenting and replacing lead service lines in the US. EPA required every state to make sure every waterworks submitted an inventory by last October, with grant money through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to pay for it.
visikde@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Is plastic really better? PVC, ABS,polyethylene and the rest get brittle after some time depending on conditions. All the degradation byproducts are in the water
Aitolda@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If it was more in the zeitgeist, kids would be huffing it on tiktok.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
You’d have people saying they like the lead and deliberately putting more of it in. Pussy-ass liberals trying to take their god given lead away…
etherphon@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Imagine trying to stop the hole in the ozone today. We’d have people spraying CFCs in the air just to spite the effort.
MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
As someone just old enough to remember, we did have that with CFCs. Might not have been super mainstream, and nobody who would have done it out of spite really had the disposable income to actually do it.
I grew up in a Fundamentalist Christian “cult” and I remember the adults around me “joking” about it all the time. I remember a Missionary to northern Canada visiting our church (in rural America) to try to raise support talking about the temperatures and joking that it’s so cold that he wanted to stand outside with an aerosol can in each hand to try to bring on some global warming, and that getting a laugh from the congregation. You might think that maybe it was a “harmless” joke that maybe as a child I didn’t pick up on the sarcasm, but there were absolutely adults there who fully believed that there was nothing humans could do to damage the earth, because God takes care of it. “And how dare the government and these evolutionists try to tell us how to live.”