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US lawyers warned plastics makers to prepare for a wave of litigation over "forever chemicals" that could dwarf asbestos
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- Title
- Lawyers to Plastics Makers: Prepare for 'Astronomical' PFAS Lawsuits
- Published
- May 28 2024
- Word count
- 1720 words
How lovely that they're advocating for destruction of evidence right there. Wish I could be more surprised.
It would be about time. The chemicals are so sturdy that I really wonder what's the most common way they do break down. I can't imagine they can last some of the cosmic radiation and free radicals but well, it's pretty clear it's a major health issue in this century.
Nature rarely gives us magic property for free. Last century already saw a lot of environmental actions which is relatively new in the long arc of humanity(no really, think about it: for millennia nature was more or less our #1 enemy). And now we're entering a stage in the arc of humanity where it turns out that if we hurt the course of nature too much, we get hurt too.
Sometimes I wonder if the next generations will ever forgive our short-sightedness.