https://archive.ph/Rurz1

The very last paragraph

“Simple things that most families already do can help,” Dr. Zajac said. Still, the bottom line was that effectively curbing our PFAS exposure “ultimately requires policy and regulation,” she said. “Unfortunately, you can’t shop your way out of exposure.”

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    6 days ago

    Bazingas have a vague instinctual feeling of unease around the shit slowly poisoning them, even if they smugpost on Reddit about how glyphosates are "made of science" so they can accuse anyone unhappy with their proliferation of being "Luddites."

    That's why they buy "raw water" from specialty stores in Silicon Valley.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      6 days ago

      I wonder if it's fundamental human need when faced with scary dangers outside of your control that people tend to believe in utter nonsense snail oil "cures" that will protect them.

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        6 days ago

        This is kind of the running theory on conspiracies, isn't it? To take Milton for an example, it's either we fucked up so hard we'd need to restructure society entirely (which never does play well with conservatives) and change everything, alternatively you shoot Kamala Harris so she doesn't HAARP you anymore or something.

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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          6 days ago

          What petrifies me is huge number of Americans who believe in utter nonsense like Jews control the weather or that Biden has buttons on his desk titled

          • "Destroy Florida."
          • "Destroy Texas."
          • Etc
      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        6 days ago

        I believe it can be mitigated and discouraged and minimized, but clearly there's something to that "if I buy a bazingamobile, I'm somehow part of the solution and climate change will be okay" this-is-fine