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		ehvatum on Dec 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chemicals called PFAS and PFOS are in the blood of... > One of the things about poison is that the more poisonous it is, the fewer living people it will be found in. Haha, that’s excellent!! PFOAs do have various impacts on mice, at high dosages: https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_record_report.cfm?Lab=NHE... The question at hand is: How much ubiquitous, world-wide PFOA presence is too much ubiquitous, world-wide PFOA presence? Related question: is it physically possible for DuPont to synthesize and release an amount of persistent environmental toxin sufficient to end all higher life on the planet within 500 years?

gala8y on Dec 28, 2020 [–]

> Related question: is it physically possible for DuPont to synthesize and release an amount of persistent environmental toxin sufficient to end all higher life on the planet within 500 years?

Never thought about it this way. Scary interesting.

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