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Not sure if this is offtopic but...
My parents grew up in China but still emotionally abusive af, did China also have leaded gasoline, or did the wind just blew all the toxicity of lead from the US all the way across the world? (None of us even stepped foot in the US until like around 2010s, I think leaded gas was already banned by then...) ๐ค
Or maybe my parents are just naturally born toxic... ๐
China didn't ban it until 2000.
It's still legal in like Afghanistan and North Korea.
Japan was the first to ban it in 1986.
Edit: to answer your question more accurately, any country with vehicles that had engines prone to knocking had it. So yes, it was very much in the atmosphere of China.
I was born after 2000 so I guess I'm fine? Does lead poisoning get passed down?
Yea I think my parents just have lead poisoning and that why they be toxic af.
My brother born before 2000 has weird racist views and conspiracy theories. Is that the lead poisoning manifesting?
We're all still being affected by this to some extent. Effectively by putting it in the gas and burning it, we also spread it though out the environment. Obviously not as bad as rawdawging the fumes themselves like the lead head boomer and genexers, but it's in the dust of the world you live in. You are doing way better than the generations previously. Interestingly, the generations looking to roll back the kind of regulations that protected you are the ones most affected by the lead (boomer, Gen x).