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Re:How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets by formerly_proven on Monday August 30, 2021 @05:02AM (#28353880)
The funny thing about tobacco is that it was widely known to be very toxic for hundreds of years before cigarettes were invented. Likewise people realized that leaded petrol (and its fumes) would be toxic, the state and petrol industry disregarded this because leaded petrol was seen as alternativlos.

Science has a fairly decent track record at finding these things. Policy has a fairly shit track record at responding.

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Re:How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets by Gravityloss on Monday August 30, 2021 @05:34AM (#28354066)
Lead paint was banned here in 1929. I think in USA in the seventies?
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Re:How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets by marcosdumay on Monday August 30, 2021 @09:11AM (#28355298)
Yet lead was known to be toxic since ancient times.

As the GP said, science has a good track record of identifying those things.

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Re:How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets by Gravityloss on Monday August 30, 2021 @09:15AM (#28355331)
Yeah, so cigarettes, climate change, endocrine disruptors, soil depletion, dioxines, phosphorus catastrophe.
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Re:How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets by marcosdumay on Monday August 30, 2021 @09:17AM (#28355343)
Ok, I think phosphorous catastrophes were not predicted.
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Re:How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets by Gravityloss on Monday August 30, 2021 @10:16AM (#28355875)
There's a global one ongoing.

Basically phosphorus that has accumulated over a long time is flushed to the seas in a hundred years.

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