I dunno, the proliferation of pfas everywhere is pretty detrimental to life on this planet. In general it is the result of the same kind of industrial criminal negligence and weaksauce regulations.
We really should have tackled both issues decades ago but yay line go up right now, so fuck the future.
PFAS is a massive problem certainly worth tackling, but as bad as it is, I don’t think it’s an existential threat with a very short time window to prevent devastation of the species like climate change is.
Theoretically there’s no reason we can’t tackle both problems at once, but personally I would advocate pumping as much resources as humanly possible into preventing climate change first, if that’s the only way politicians will deal with it.
The exact effect of these chemicals is still not known. Microplastics seem capable of limiting crop yields, so that’s certainly a horrific issue combined with reduced yields from climate change as well. But chemicals in general, as horrific as they are, are not quite an existential threat capable of completely destroying our ability to grow food.
Current farming practices depleting topsoil is a bigger threat to food production than chemicals, generally, except for pesticides likely causing the collapse of the bee population, which is an existential threat.
I don’t think it’s comparable. Climate change is far more dire and time sensitive.
I dunno, the proliferation of pfas everywhere is pretty detrimental to life on this planet. In general it is the result of the same kind of industrial criminal negligence and weaksauce regulations.
We really should have tackled both issues decades ago but yay line go up right now, so fuck the future.
PFAS is a massive problem certainly worth tackling, but as bad as it is, I don’t think it’s an existential threat with a very short time window to prevent devastation of the species like climate change is.
Theoretically there’s no reason we can’t tackle both problems at once, but personally I would advocate pumping as much resources as humanly possible into preventing climate change first, if that’s the only way politicians will deal with it.
It doesn’t matter how warm the earth gets if the soil and water is so polluted we cannot grow crops
The exact effect of these chemicals is still not known. Microplastics seem capable of limiting crop yields, so that’s certainly a horrific issue combined with reduced yields from climate change as well. But chemicals in general, as horrific as they are, are not quite an existential threat capable of completely destroying our ability to grow food.
Current farming practices depleting topsoil is a bigger threat to food production than chemicals, generally, except for pesticides likely causing the collapse of the bee population, which is an existential threat.