New research shows that rainwater in most locations on Earth contains levels of chemicals that “greatly exceed” safety levels.
Grew up down river of an industrial plant dumping some type of this shit straight into a river for like 3 decades. Whole lower watershed, few hundred thousand people, drink bottled water now indefinitely. Cancer rates are noticably higher and health outcomes are lower than the region generally.
A calculated decision was made on how many people the owners were willing to knowingly poison for profit. And I don’t know if they ever knew how many that number would really be, but I know that their answer would never change.
I grew up in an identical place. Someone I knew from the fourth grade got cancer and moved. Someone else I knew from the second grade lost their sister because of cancer as she entered highschool. I don’t have cancer to my knowledge but I’ve never felt good physically here, just practically permanently tired to some degree.
