Re:Cancer-Linked Chemicals Manufactured by 3M Are Turning Up...
by TylerE on Monday November 05, 2018 @07:47PM
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This sounds very fear mongery. I bet you'd get more radiation from eating a Banana than the residual radiation of every nuclear test combined.
Re:Cancer-Linked Chemicals Manufactured by 3M Are Turning Up...
by ryanmercer on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @08:27AM
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You selected one of several points and took it entirely out of context adding your own bias. The point is, we've contaminated the entire planet with various things as a direct result of our actions.
Microplastics for example have been found in:
sea salt - https://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/stories/sea-sa...
water - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/15/micropla...
air - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/09/people-m...
poop - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/microplastics-foun...
And of course thanks to all of the atomic/nuclear weapons we've detonated, everyone alive right now holds radioactive evidence from those detonations in their bodies https://www.businessinsider.com/bomb-pulse-radiation-decay-c...
Then there's the ozone damage we've done and the fact someone in China is still using, or has recently been anyway, CFCs - https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/27/investigators-china-ille...
And mercury from coal smoke - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S130910421...
Lead in soil from: leaded paints, past use of leaded gasoline, lead water-supply piping in the US until the 1920's, lead in in plumbing solder in the US until 1986...