We figured out sometime before the widespread use of copper that we needed a way to remove smoke from buildings. The stoves we had before gas stoves were connected to chimneys. We knew that candles and kerosene left soot when burned. The fact that gas stoves had a lag before people started to add exhaust for them was bizarre.
Romans knew there were health hazards with lead, Asbestos was connected to health problems around their time as well. Leaded gasoline was questioned from the jump, PCBs were known to be harmful in the 1930s, and microplastics were first described in the 1970s.
It almost seems like the ignorant want to stay ignorant because they don’t want to change due to what they see as extra effort that shouldn’t fall on them. It’s not how the info is disseminated, because we know being polite and respectful gets ignored, we know that being forceful gets ignored, AND we know that short of making it everyone’s immediate problem doesn’t motivate the bulk of people to do anything about it.
We figured out sometime before the widespread use of copper that we needed a way to remove smoke from buildings. The stoves we had before gas stoves were connected to chimneys. We knew that candles and kerosene left soot when burned. The fact that gas stoves had a lag before people started to add exhaust for them was bizarre.
Romans knew there were health hazards with lead, Asbestos was connected to health problems around their time as well. Leaded gasoline was questioned from the jump, PCBs were known to be harmful in the 1930s, and microplastics were first described in the 1970s.
It almost seems like the ignorant want to stay ignorant because they don’t want to change due to what they see as extra effort that shouldn’t fall on them. It’s not how the info is disseminated, because we know being polite and respectful gets ignored, we know that being forceful gets ignored, AND we know that short of making it everyone’s immediate problem doesn’t motivate the bulk of people to do anything about it.
Ignorance will kill us all.