There already is lol.
I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement
Submitted 4 months ago by philz@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Babalugats@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Plastic is much more useful than asbestos ever was.
philz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Cool bro. I guess we should bring asbestos back then
Babalugats@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My point was, as per OP, if we banned it now, there would still be a large portion claiming outrage. Either because they profit from it, or it effects a product they use or collect.
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
If there wasn’t such a huge amount of money in remediation, you’d likely still have them now.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Canada: shifty_eye_puppet.jpg
jasoman@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It was only banned in 2024
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Absolutely would be, yes
SouthFresh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Inucune@lemmy.world 4 months ago
He’d drive a truck fogging asbestos dust out the back
JustAThought@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Didn’t they have asbestos shovelling competitions? 1962 Right around the time major studies confirmed the concerns from a decade earlier:
1960s: Studies, particularly by Dr. Irving Selikoff in the U.S., showed clear links between asbestos exposure and mesothelioma, lung cancer, and other illnesses, prompting greater public health concern.
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I would 100% agree with you with where I live, Alberta Canada.
46_and_2@lemmy.world 4 months ago
[In Asbest, Russia, Making Asbestos Great Again
Kcap@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m personally waiting for the inevitable fight over autonomous vehicles. The only way they truly work to our advantage is if nearly every car is self-driving. I absolutely foresee a “they’re trying to take my Trans-am” resistance, people that will be fighting to the death not to lose the ability to drive their own car.
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’ll be one of those people and so will anyone else with the smallest bit of common sense. Autonomous private vehicles will never be viable or safe within my life time.
Safe autonomous vehicles already exist btw they operate on rails and even those require a driver in case shit goes wrong.
I’m so fucking sick of tech bros trying to make public transport stupider and more complicated in the name of private profits.
tcrpz@programming.dev 4 months ago
Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
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