As lawmakers around the world weigh bans of 'forever chemicals,” many manufacturers are pushing back, saying there often is no substitute.

  • PhlubbaDubba
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    8 months ago

    Cancer causing materials are not a necessity to support global scale populations.

    Also, I frankly wouldn’t mind returning to a world where almost half my time was my own and not my employer’s.

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      8 months ago

      You can have that today. You can still forage for food. It is even easier today.

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      8 months ago

      Also, I frankly wouldn’t mind returning to a world where almost half my time was my own and not my employer’s.

      It still wouldn’t actually be your own. You currently work to afford your lifestyle. You’d still work the same amount, probably more, but you certainly wouldn’t have your current lifestyle.