• voidbanana@feddit.nu
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    1 year ago

    Agree, though just because we currently have not been able to establish that something is harmful, we should still be open to reevaluating that assumption given new evidence.

    Consider PFAS, which we for a long time thought was completely inert and harmless, at least after production. Only recently we’ve discovered or perhaps rather accepted that it has adverse effects on human health.

    Another example is freon. A completely awesome product, until we found that it caused the ozone hole and we had to ban it.