Hacker News Reader

I'd always search online for "fishing advisory <body of water>" prior to fishing anywhere I intend to eat the fish.

At least now you won't have to spend time doing that anymore. Now we already know <body of water> is contaminated. Even the rainwater is full of PFAS.

Jeez, what an insane shame this is. I wish there was accountability and punishment for this.

"Unsafe levels of toxic chemicals are present in rainwater throughout the globe, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology."

https://environmentamerica.org/updates/update-new-study-find... SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Companies have gotten away with knowingly poisoning people and hiding it for ages. Now they've gotten away with poisoning the entire planet and every living creature on it. What hope is there for accountability? At this point I'm honestly not sure what they'd have to do to incur meaningful punishment.

I'm amazed people haven't demanded justice for it. I'd always assumed that if it became impossible for enough people to get justice within the legal system eventually people would seek justice outside of it, but that doesn't seem to be the case either.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com