Formaldehyde Causes More Cancer Than Any Other Toxic Air Pollutant

Re:Formaldehyde Causes More Cancer Than Any Other Toxic Air ... by ndsipa_pomu on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @09:23AM (#42317670)

I daresay that the bigger problem with tyre dust is that lots of it gets washed into rivers and waterways whenever it rains. Some of the proprietary tyre chemicals (e.g. 6PPD) have been shown to be extremely toxic to fish, so this is yet another pressure that we're putting on our environment.

https://www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media/news/new-method-measure...

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Re:Formaldehyde Causes More Cancer Than Any Other Toxic Air ... by wongarsu on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @09:31AM (#42317763)

But we only care about that when it ends up in fish we eat. The fish are dying anyways from overfishing. And even when the fish we eat are full of microplastic we seem to be able to mostly ignore that. Eating fish is a personal choice and all that.

I wish we cared about the rivers and oceans, but as a group we seem to mostly hope that enough bacteria will evolve to eat that stuff. Getting people to do something about the air we breathe is a lot easier (and even then change is slow and with a lot of opposition)

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Re:Formaldehyde Causes More Cancer Than Any Other Toxic Air ... by ndsipa_pomu on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @09:54AM (#42318006)

I don't really see it as a choice between water and air as we're utterly dependant on both for the survival of humans.

I think we're behaving like a room full of monkeys that are just throwing shit around and hoping that not too much ends up on ourselves. We can't continue to do that forever.

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