Comment on cancel culture has gone too far
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Asbestos is a sad story tbh. It’s an amazing engineering material, incredible in any high heat application, resilient, strong, and insulating. It’s actually great. Aside from that tiny, itsy bitsy little problem of it causing cancer in anyone that handles it…
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Same with leaded gas: it is a wonderful fuel additive; very effective and engines ran so well as they covered the world with lead microparticles. And CFCs: a really great refrigerant but it just also loves reacting with stratospheric ozone! Oddly enough, both commercialized by the same very evil man en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.