Ginjahmenace t1_j91varl wrote on February 18, 2023 at 4:30 PM

I attended a school board meeting recently where administrators were discussing the ongoing need to supply bottled water due to the buildings nearly 800 foot deep well being contaminated by PFAS. The scale of this disaster is far bigger than most people understand. The entities responsible for introducing these chemicals and continuing to manufacture them need to be held morally and financially accountable.

MosskeepForest t1_j920qd7 wrote on February 18, 2023 at 5:07 PM

>The entities responsible for introducing these chemicals and continuing to manufacture them need to be held morally and financially accountable.

It is similar to when gas producers were putting lead in the gas.... despite knowing the effects of lead in the environment and on humans.

So instead of owning up to the damage they were causing (or the government doing anything to prevent it), they were allowed to continue for many decades and cause country wide contamination and lead poisoning in people....

The punishment? Massive profits... and then eventually (after a very very long time) they were told to cut it out. There is no accountability, that isn't how America handles public safety issues.

HumpSlackWails t1_j9586ux wrote on February 19, 2023 at 9:30 AM

" The entities responsible for introducing these chemicals and continuing to manufacture them need to be held morally and financially accountable."

This will never happen.

Half of the people in America utterly refuse to ever do any such thing.