Everyone knows about carbon emissions, dumping trash on the ocean, deforestation etc. What are the lesser known environmental disasters?
Everyone knows about carbon emissions, dumping trash on the ocean, deforestation etc. What are the lesser known environmental disasters?
In the mass-manufacturing of Teflon Dupont created an insidious poison called C8 or PFOA (polyfluorooctanic acid) and the chemical is now present in 99% of living beings on Earth.
Reminds me of Monsanto's "You could drink a gallon of it!" guy when pretending that glyphosate was safe.
Spoilers: He refused to even drink a teaspoonful >:(
Dang, in fact PFOA basically had the exact same thing happen
'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid#Sources_to_people - as news stories began to raise concerns about PFOA in microwaved popcorn, Dan Turner, DuPont's global public relations chief, said, "I serve microwave popcorn to my three-year-old." Five years later, journalist Peter Laufer wrote to Turner to ask if his child was still eating microwave popcorn. "I am not going to comment on such a personal inquiry", Turner replied'
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