Veritasium: How one company poisoned the planet

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"The biggest chemical cover up in history. PFAS has polluted the entire global water system. Now, potentially dangerous forever chemicals are being found in the entire US population."
 
As someone with a bunch of Grandchildren-it depresses me
 
Blackyce said:


"The biggest chemical cover up in history. PFAS has polluted the entire global water system. Now, potentially dangerous forever chemicals are being found in the entire US population."
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I watched that about two weeks ago and thought it was very good…and by very good, I mean it really pissed me off.

With that said, I work in an industry which supports the use of one of the many applications for these chemicals. Without getting into any detail, the benefits of its use far outweighs the negatives…but it is being phased out nonetheless. After watching the video…I feel better about it being phased out.

I also recently watched a PBS documentary on Love Canal…I was young when this would have been in the news. While I have often heard it mentioned many times, I never actually knew the story.
 
Great for the bottled water industry in Wilmington until we find out how much the water bottles leach plastics. I still think we should fix natural stupidity before charging into artificial intelligence.
 
Around 1970 my Dad was in Rochester doing some business with Kodak The guy told him a few years earlier they had a big snow...Warehouses full of film were ruined from the radiation from the snow on the roof that sat there a couple weeks
 
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"The biggest chemical cover up in history. PFAS has polluted the entire global water system. Now, potentially dangerous forever chemicals are being found in the entire US population."
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I normally will not watch a YouTube video that is longer than 10 minutes. But I watched that one about a week ago. I have some professional background in what the video discusses. All that professional background was on the industry side. There is nothing in the video that struck me as a misrepresentation or exaggeration of the situation. These "Forever Chemicals" scare me more than the ones they replaced. But on the upside, Thomas Midgley, Jr. (1889 to 1944), the man who invented both leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons (Freon), may be resting a bit easier in his grave knowing his inventions are no longer poisoning America.
 
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