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orthoclad

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4. There are people still living

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Mar 23, 2023, 10:43 PM

Mar 2023

who personally approved dumping this stuff.

Send them out with a straw.

If they're dead, confiscate their estates for the cleanup.

Yet another case of the world dealing with petrochemical cleanup. Or like those dolphins and condors, living and dying with the poison.

Privatize the profits, socialize the costs.

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good work by the LA Times on first exposing this.... bahboo Mar 2023 #1

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There is, but it won't be popular. NNadir Mar 2023 #5

There are people still living orthoclad Mar 2023 #4