One environmental attorney said that the EPA proposal “prioritizes chemical industry profits and utility companies’ bottom line over the health of children and families across the country.”

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    You’d think the environmental lawyer and world’s greatest health expert RFK jnr or his worm pilot would have something to say about this.

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      I’ve got fucking nothing for this bullshit… there’s hardly enough brain in here to sustain life left alone thoughts. It’s absolutely bananas

  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    If a life is worth $10,000,000. And PFAs are reducing lives by at least 3 years depending on the chemicals. That’s roughly 4% of a life. If 77% of the population drink tap water in some form, that’s about 267,000,000 people losing $400,000 of their lives. And that’s before you factor in $50 billion dollars in health care costs that come from PFAs, and will only increase. (We’ll leave that out)

    To put it simply maybe we should sue the government in a class action lawsuit for $106.8 trillion if they are not putting protections in place to insure those people aren’t stolen from.

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      Let’s say they don’t care about other people at all (which honestly at this point is pretty clear) the direct economic losses due to this change will be major. Short-term profit over long-term wellbeing, similar to the pandemic.

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    Fluoride in water? Ahhhh get rid of it! It’s improving children and adults’ dental hygiene too much!!!

    Other stuff proven harmful to long term health? Meh, whatever.

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    As with the Department of War, I propose that the name of the EPA be changed to the Environmental Destruction Agency.