Ask HN: What Is Today's Lead?

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4 years ago

"What is the thing that looking back will turn out to be horrible for us and pervasive in the environment?"

Posted by u/adamgordonbell in another thread on HN today.

This seems to be a very important question.

Some of my proposals:

1) Environmental contaminants in water, food, and air https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/13/a-chemical-hunger-part-iii-environmental-contaminants/

2) Xenoestrogens in plastics, pesticides, toiletries, perfumes, polyester and nylon clothing https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3947648/

3) Mass consumption of pharmaceutical drugs

4) Vegetable seed oils https://chriskresser.com/how-industrial-seed-oils-are-making-us-sick/

5) Sugar and hyper palatable foods https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/25/book-review-the-hungry-brain/

6) Endemic pathogens like toxoplasmosis https://www.hardtowrite.com/pathogens/

What else? What is today's lead?

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