There's a lesson to be learned here:
Remove lead? Industry fights it. Lead gets removed. Industry is fine.
Acid rain? Industry fights it. Sulfur dioxide emissions reduced. Industry is fine.
Hole in ozone layer? Industry fights it. PFCs removed. Industry just fine.
Global warming? Industry fights it...
But the industry WASN'T fine. They lost a fraction of a fraction of a percent in profits by going for the cleaner, safer options. How can you be so heartless.
Clearly nobody has thought about the corpo parasite mate...
There is an issue of scale in that series. The first three are relatively small cost fixes. Addressing global climate change requires fundamentally reconfiguring all industry, globally at the very least. That's orders of magnitude more costly than the first three fixes. And it's orders of magnitude more difficult to get done politically, and engineering-wise.
But beyond that it may require massive reductions in consumption, trade and transportation. Possibly even short term remediation efforts like sprinkling silver dust in the stratosphere, which is estimated to cost in the hundred trillion dollar range.
I like that your comment shows that progress can be made against entrenched powerful interests though.
Nope all it requires is a tax on greenhouse gas emissions, that’s it.
So no one has to change anything physically? Just tax and poof? Neat trick.
Here’s the Wikipedia article on carbon tax it’s quite positive about it
Looks around at the trump world… yep
Yup. About half of them voted this last election.
And they vote.
Over 75 years, Hauer said lead exposure doubled the risk of schizophrenia for 89 million Americans, while quadrupling the risk of attention deficit disorder (ADHD) among another 170 million U.S. adults. The research also found a spike in anxiety, depression and neuroticism and a decrease in conscientiousness over the same period.
The authors note that lead exposures would have also occurred from lead pipes, contaminated food and soil, and airborne dust from lead-emitting industries and waste incineration, among other sources. However, all of the mental health disorders tracked in the study rose and fell with the prevalence of lead in gasoline.
I guess this explains Boomers
Gen X voted for Trump in greater numbers. We need to admit that half of Americans just fucking suck in general.
Gen X was still knee deep in lead emissions.
Also, both groups have had a stranglehold on mainstream media, normalizing their sociopathy for the next generations.
For the record, less than a third of eligible voters voted for Trump.
Fair enough, a third of Americans are fascists and a third are too beaten down or stupid to care.
Honestly, as much as I'm grieved and angered by what the world is right now, I find it really hard to fault the average person for choosing ignorance in the face of the monstrous realities of everyday modernity. I know that things could be so much better, and I want them to see it too, and fight for it. (Thus why I made my account on slrpnk.net.)
But, it feels unfair for me to expect something of them that they may be unequipped to handle mentally and/or emotionally. Perhaps I'm just too nice—and perhaps that's the burden of having a big heart. Or perhaps I'm just too weak, and tough love would be more caring. I'm still figuring it out myself. 💔
This is why boomers hate their children.
151 million? That number seems low to me....
I think that's about the amount of people who were are currently alive, that had been born by the time leaded gas was banned, maybe a little bit less.
Don’t aircraft still use leaded fuel to this day?
So uh, there was some studying being done at my local university about mapping health issues for residents living closer to airports and.... It ain't too great. :(
That's probably related to all the other chemicals they use at airports (eg forever chemicals in fire retardant). 100LL (100 octane low lead) is only used in small piston engines, which is a very small population. They're trying alternatives that don't use lead, but I'm reading that the top contender is eating through paint and possibly gaskets and seals in the plane, which isn't safe either.
Only some small piston based aircraft engines. Commercial aviation doesn't use lead. It's not great, but it's not a particularly significant amount.
Yes. My boomer father drives to airports to get leaded gas for his lawn equipment and generators. He thinks I'm over reacting when I refuse to be near any of that shit when it's running.
Wonder what we'll find out the lunchables have done to us.
do you have eyes?
like how is that news? we see them all the time.