Using AI to hack humans for maximizing ad revenue is so, so bad for society.
I think we're on ~3 generations and counting now and letting us reach that conclusion is against their interests.
Fracking chemicals are horrific and completely unregulated.
Indoors you've got VOCs like formaldehyde leaking out of furniture and carpets. There's also the fireproofing chemicals in furniture that are seriously nasty stuff. "New car smell" is also chock full of gasses that aren't good for you.
Near waterways we're doing a fantastic job of killing off everything via nitrogen runoff from lawns, farms, and septic systems.
Bush and Trump both raised limits for stuff like arseni in drinking water. PFOA and PFOS contamination is showing up all over the place thanks to airports and firefighter training facilities using them and letting it just run off: https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/drinking...
A radio program recently covered how the EPA was pressuring its researchers to strip out mention of possible analogues if those analogs were known toxins. What little review the EPA does is nearly useless because the industry has inserted itself so well.
Is there any real reason to believe the same is not true of the latest edition?
They're extraordinarily dangerous antibiotics. It was becoming known in the early 1990s the soft tissue, heart, retina, brain and nerve damage they can cause. Most European nations restricted their prescription considerably. The US did the opposite and commonly prescribed them. As of a decade ago the US was prescribing fluoroquinolones to roughly 10% of its adult population annually.
The evil scumbags at Bayer tried to get enrofloxacin (Baytril; comparable to Cipro) approved to be put in water to be fed to poultry for mass consumption by the population.
Cipro carries two blackbox warning labels. The FDA dragged their feet on dealing with it for more than a decade despite knowing how dangerous it is. And Cipro is the gentle one in the family.
What we'll eventually prove is that Cipro harms everyone that takes it and should be used only as a last resort, not first resort.
Additionally, people inhale the crap when they spray it around them like perfume.
Every generation seems to think they can't possibly make such ignorant mistakes as were made in the past. It makes me wonder what we will observe in a hundred or so years from now what we're currently doing that we aren't aware of how harmful it is.