Plastic is much more harmful than asbestos ever was. (Try banning it)
this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2025
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Of course he is for it.
It will make him money
And none of the thousands who will get sick and or die
Are people he knows personally
I'm surprised there isn't a "pro poison in food" If only for those who feel
"No one tells ME what to do!"
As if the processed food industry doesn't already lobby Congress spendinf millions annually.
I'm still in favor of asbestos. It's an amazing material for preventing fires AS LONG AS you never disturb it. The people that were most at risk of cancers were the people involved in the mining, manufacturing, and installation of asbestos products, but once the asbestos-containing products were installed, they were almost entirely safe for the occupants of the building. You could, in theory, largely mitigate the risks to the miners, manufacturers, and installers, but that is... Well, expensive. And people have a really bad tendency to ignore health and safety warnings when they're inconvenient. You see the same issue with quartz countertops; they're known to cause silicosis in people that are doing the cutting unless they do wet cutting for everything, and wear PPE, but a lot of people don't, because wet-cutting is messy and slow, and PPE is hot and uncomfortable.
There was a big movement in the late 90s to remove asbestos from old buildings; the current advice is to encapsulate it, and leave it in place.
Aren't there ways to treat the asbestos and prevent the fibers from becoming airborne and posing a serious risk?
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You also have to consider removal at the end of life. Or safety risks if another country drops bombs randomly on your cities.
Fair point about removal; but if you're being bombed, I think asbestos is going to be low on your list of worries.
they were almost entirely safe for the occupants of the building
So would you live in a house your whole life that's "almost" entirely safe? I don't think I would
Millions of people do and have. They are again almost entirely fine.
I do. My ceiling almost certainly has asbestos in it. I just don't touch it. Also uncovered a few chunks that looked kinda asbestossy when breaking up the concrete in the garden, it was only a few chunks so I assume something containing it had been dumped there many decades ago. I just disposed of it with everything else and pretended I didn't see anything.
It was a very dusty job in the first place so I started spraying it with water to help prevent the dust getting into the air.
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If CFCs were banned today you would see people spraying them in the air to own the libs, also spraying their children with DDTs because RFK Jr told them to
What about thalidomide?
worth giving it a try....do NOT, I repeat do NOT spray RFK Jr with DDT every time you see him. I am a liberal and this would really make me cry. Don't do it!
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"When we had asbestos there was less autism. Big pharma teamed up with big construction to screw us up"
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Because Russia, the number one exporter of asbestoes and the number one disinformation capital of the world.