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[–] 49 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I cannot think of any reason they would do this unless they were just actively trying to kill people. We've known that asbestos is bad for 100 years and they finally banned the last kind of it very recently. This doesn't even make sense economically as it's not even in high demand. It would be cheaper and more economically viable to leave it exactly where it is. Next thing you know they are gonna start putting lead back into gasoline for literally no reason besides "fuck you."

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Every sign points to them actively trying to kill people.

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  • Yeah this is when the wealthy have decided the lower classes are expendable. They don't actually care about poor people having more babies. They just want rich people having more babies. They would like to see us gone because they think they can offset climate change by getting rid of a lot of us. Too bad for them they use ten times the resources as the bottom 50% of society.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Why everything he does is evil? I don't get it.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In 2017, 1.3 million tonnes of asbestos were mined worldwide. Russia was the largest producer with 53% of the world total

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    We tried microplastics and PFAS for a few decades, clearly they aren't killing us fast enough. Bring back the GOAT

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    It's going to be a very merry xmas

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I know! Let's put it back in cigarette filters and give them to children!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    PRISTINE Asbestos will BRING BACK JOBS to the US and KEEP its citizens WARM. So much for global WARMING if we need to return to GOOD OLD ASBESTOS

    -BigMacHole

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I didn’t realise it wasn’t already banned. It’s been banned in the UK since 1999.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It is banned; they're talking about un-banning it

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It should be mentioned that it was only banned in the US in 2024 under Biden, so obviously yet another reason why he would want to overturn the ban (on top him being paid to overturn it of course).

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You baned ASBESTOS in 2024???!!! It's not the right century.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It hasn't been used in decades, banned or not

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 year ago

    I think my favourite part is that it was banned in the us in 1989 but then unbanned in 1991 after a fight in the court of appeals.

    Oh and there are still some asbestos uses allowed (cement sheets, industrial diaphragms, etc.) but the us is not unique in this.

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