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Re:Could the world go PFAS-free? Proposal to ban ‘forever ch... by Zigurd on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:43PM (#36959524)
After our civilization collapses and is forgotten, scientists thousands of years from now will wonder at what kinds of planetary scale maniacs we were: A layer of lead covering the planet, so we could have cars. A globe-spanning layer of americium-241 from when we tested nuclear bombs in the open air. Etc.
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Re:Could the world go PFAS-free? Proposal to ban ‘forever ch... by rcMgD2BwE72F on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:48PM (#36960568)
This has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene#Stratigraphy
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Re:Could the world go PFAS-free? Proposal to ban ‘forever ch... by nemo44x on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:51PM (#36960638)
But won't they also look at skeletons and see that life expectancies also increased during this entire time?
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