New research shows that rainwater in most locations on Earth contains levels of chemicals that "greatly exceed" safety levels.

  • Dingus_Khan [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Grew up down river of an industrial plant dumping some type of this shit straight into a river for like 3 decades. Whole lower watershed, few hundred thousand people, drink bottled water now indefinitely. Cancer rates are noticably higher and health outcomes are lower than the region generally.

    A calculated decision was made on how many people the owners were willing to knowingly poison for profit. And I don't know if they ever knew how many that number would really be, but I know that their answer would never change.

    • Grebgreb [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I grew up in an identical place. Someone I knew from the fourth grade got cancer and moved. Someone else I knew from the second grade lost their sister because of cancer as she entered highschool. I don't have cancer to my knowledge but I've never felt good physically here, just practically permanently tired to some degree.