• cheeseandrice@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I made this connection a month ago - that a couple of generations of humans grew up breathing exhaust from leaded gasoline and dust from lead paint and had a bit of an epiphany about the state of the world.

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      1 year ago

      Dude. As a whole the world is stupider by several tens of IQ points solely in specifically due to lead poisoning.

      Lead poisoning is the single most detrimental effect ever experienced by humanity so very few people even understand that!

    • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Makes me wonder if we’re not undergoing something similar. I imagine that a lot of people didn’t know the effects it’d have on them when those things were first introduced