[spwa4]

If you think fetal alcohol syndrome is bad, check what the consequences of lead poisoning are, knowing that just about every state has mass-contaminated their population with lead and then refused to help with the consequences.

You can avoid fetal alcohol syndrome. You cannot realistically avoid fetal lead poisoning.

[LoganDark]

Well you can't really undo lead poisoning. Nor microplastics, etc. Once those have gotten into a population that's just how the population's gonna be. So it makes sense that there's nothing to do about a lead-poisoned population other than stop adding more.

[spwa4]

> So it makes sense that there's nothing to do about a lead-poisoned population other than stop adding more.

Well the criticism is, of course, that lead poisoning, in most cases was the government doing it (e.g. Flint, and lead pipes in Europe). As for "nothing to be done" ... well, no. But that still leaves the government responsible for the damage (which in cases they had a private party to convict was lifetime care + damages).

Of course, governments decided, immediately, they weren't responsible.

Lead poisoning either kills you quickly (large doses, or you're already an adult) or turns you into an idiot, permanently (young kids, including in the womb)

> microplastics ...

No version of microplastics damages kids' brains, so it doesn't compare, really.

[LoganDark]

> No version of microplastics damages kids' brains, so it doesn't compare, really.

*we don't conclusively know what their effects are yet, but that's not the same thing as saying they definitively aren't harmful.