[pengaru]

> all the shit you dump/burn ends up in your food or water eventually

but most that shit doesn't survive the journey intact, being out in the elements and bombarded by the sun isn't kind to most things

hence the focus on "forever chemicals"

[lm28469]

But still a lot of things do, pesticides following the rain cycles is a good example. We're killing the biodiversity and ourselves with it. We already almost entirely rely on synthetically amending fields with petrol byproducts to feed ourselves, tomorrow we might have to manually pollinate crops when insects won't be enough to do the job.

PFAS are a problem, co2 is a problem, but we have dozens of other very big problems that are partially, if not entirely, obscured

https://usrtk.org/healthwire/banned-pesticides-found-in-clou...

[bossyTeacher]

> We already almost entirely rely on synthetically amending fields with petrol byproducts to feed ourselves

elaborate please

[tremon]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process

> Nearly 50% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated from the Haber–Bosch process. Thus, the Haber process [enabled] the global population to increase from 1.6 billion in 1900 to 7.7 billion by November 2018.

[NetMageSCW]

I assume that means we have to use fertilizer to ensure we can produce enough food crop.

[Zigurd]

Future archaeologists will wonder that we first fouled our nest from edge to edge with lead in gasoline, and then there's that radioactive layer, and following immediately after the forever chemicals layer.

[pengaru]

The anthropocene, aka the petroradiata layer