“We were able to show through our hair samples what the lead concentrations are before and after the establishment of regulations by the EPA,” said demographer #link(“https://profiles.faculty.utah.edu/u0030780”)[Ken Smith];, a distinguished professor emeritus of family and consumer studies. “We have hair samples spanning about 100 years. And back when the regulations were absent, the lead levels were about 100 times higher than they are after the regulations.”
Still need to ban it in aircraft fuel
Note for everyone that it’s not in fuel for turbine engines, it’s in fuel for piston engines (though progress is being made).
So pretty much personal aircraft only not commercial.
Some small piston engine aircraft serve remote communities in places like Alaska, as well as things like research stations and some remote infrastructure.
Although its mostly personal aircraft, yeah.
bullshit.
They could have mandated E85 two decades ago. they just kick the ball forward with studies and consultations. E85 is 108 octane rated.
What are you calling bullshit on? Doesn’t look like your comment correlates with the above one
Ferrocene might be a better drop-in replacement, since it wouldn’t affect the fuel’s vapor pressure.
Still though, I agree this should have been handled decades ago.
Apparently there has been some progress towards that, as we needed an alternative additive for piston-engine prop planes to prevent engine knock. You don’t want planes stalling or breaking down.
The FAA has a program to completely eliminate the leaded fuels by 2030, but there is one already available and several more in testing.
Americans use of lead has causing significant iq damage:
That’s obvious by examining all the geriatrics running the country who were alive prior to the implementation of these bans.
so they only banned it cuz it affect wealthy people then?
And here I thought the voter age brackets were proof enough
I’m not even joking, i’m fairly certain the massive lead exposure boomers copped is responsible for a lot of their behaviour.
Fun fact: most lead is taken up and locked intour bones. Which is mostly harmless…until you hit advanced age where degradation or fractures leak it back into your bloodstream
That and generational trauma from two world wars.
That said there is a lot of data that seems to state that the drop in violent crime and crime in general had a lot to do with not having lead addled brains.
The auto industry knowing what the lead did and pushing for roads to be built in over or through black neighborhoods should be persecuted the same way tobacco was supposed to be.
That and generational trauma from two world wars.
No Boomer, by definition, has seen any world war.
Boomers, by definition, were raised by generations who did though.
Generational trauma.
I know my boomer parents were raised by people who were traumatized by war and it impacted them.
The boomers also lived through Vietnam, so sure not a world war but a war just the same. We Americans are “spoiled” insomuch as war happens “somewhere else”
No, but the trauma from the war generations is passed on to the boomers. One of the pioneers on research of generational trauma is a son of a Holocaust survivor. His first observation of generational trauma was when his dad told him to just do what he says without question. And even though the researcher was a child at the time, he already acutely noted that his dad sounded like the Nazis who persecuted him. A lot of family members, unfortunately, bear the brunt of emotional lashing out of those who experienced conflicts.
as a mod - that is too demeaning of others
as a general person - (agrees)
(having an internal conflict if i should upvote or not)
It’s not demeaning to show a factual correlation to historical environmental lead exposure.
And you can just not vote if you’re not sure.
