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Alternative_Nail1632 t1_j8o5wpn wrote

Before the Clean Air act this kind of shit was spewing out of chimneys all over the country, particularly New England which had a thriving plastics industry. It wasn’t that long ago that a plant in Merrimack, New Hampshire was spewing similar chemicals into the air on a daily basis. Most of the chemicals used in daily life and is the kind of stuff that goes up in flames every time a house burns.

It’s not good but not terrible. We will survive

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nhwoodsblues t1_j8ovxf0 wrote

So because something unhealthy used to happen 'all the time', it's not a big deal if it happens now? huh?

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Alternative_Nail1632 t1_j8ow6wr wrote

Not at all. It’s a huge deal. It’s just not the disaster it looks like. Its a few trainload of pretty ordinary chemicals. It’s not Bophal (sp?).

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friendly-cephalopod t1_j8pablw wrote

Higher rates of cancer, most notably a 42% higher rate of kidney cancer in the Merrimack River valley as a direct cause of Saint Gobain polluting the drinking water with PFAS. Even after it was first discovered in 2016, the company wasn't even required to provide safe drinking water until 2018. This is a decade and a half after the situation with Dupont, so the company had known they were poisoning people for 15 years and did absolutely nothing about it. I'd classify that as pretty fucking terrible.

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princedune t1_j8shyqg wrote

burning it in an incinerator is a lot different than lighting a pit full of it and other chemicals on fire

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