Ask HN: How can you escape all pollution?
Plastic pollution in food chain, shower, storages,...
Petroleum derived pollution in air.
Pesticides in vegetables and antibiotics in meat, also animals fed filler diet instead of natural mineral rich diet...
Water pollution of chemicals (i.e. chlorine), plastic leaks, rust, fluoride, etc.
I can live with increased background radiation from nukes, but it seems at every corner you are compromising with a new poison. Whether you're buying furniture, building a house, or just buying simple sauce.
Why is it ok for capitalistic society to just to make a new compound that provides one benefit but we have no knowledge of how it interacts with other compounds or human body directly otherwise, and then let population be the guinea pig while few rack profits. Externalize all risks, and internalize all gain.
It feels like you have to be very rich if you want to live a life free of pollution, and richer if you don't want to pollute either.
who decided covering entire country with tar is safe for humans....
who decided that it's ok to mass market Aspartame...
who decided that it's ok prescribe allergy drugs that cause dementia...