New research shows that rainwater in most locations on Earth contains levels of chemicals that “greatly exceed” safety levels.

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ah I shouldn’t have read this while drunk

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Don’t worry, those breweries and distilleries draw their water from the same polluted sources :jokerfied:

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great. just fucking great. capital accumulation is going to kill us all, as slowly as possible

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To be fair, there are plenty of quicker methods happening as well. :this-is-fine:

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The combination of resources depletion, a rabid crumbling empire with the worst extravagant death machine in history, and nuclear weapons may make it fast :posadas:

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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.

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:gold-communist:

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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.

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lmao, lol

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