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Lead exposure in last century shrunk IQ scores of half of Americans: study

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Re: Lead exposure in last century shrunk IQ scores of half of Americans: study

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Post by banana_maker »

SimplyUnknown wrote: post #16
softwarebeware wrote: post #10

It makes me angry to think of how wreckless the generations before millenials were. Lead's risks and damages were well-known long before 1996. And they still didn't ban it until then.

I agree that people have been reckless with population safety in past, but your comment seems to imply that the Millenial generation are somehow flawless with regards with this subject. While safety is now more stringent than in the past, I very much doubt that this is the case.

As of 2021, out of 432 members in the house of congress, a scant 31 are millenials. In the senate, just 1.

Millenials are -not- the ones responsible for disastrous policies (yet). They haven't been around long enough yet. It's mainly boomers, some gen x, and a few silents.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/02/12/boomers-sil...

edit: Added "(yet)" because it's not obvious, I suppose. My point here is that the actual policymakers in congress, right now, are majority "not-millenials". So stop blaming millenials and/or gen-z when they're not the ones currently writing legislature...

Re: Lead exposure in last century shrunk IQ scores of half of Americans: study

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Post by ajuc »

SimplyUnknown wrote: post #16
softwarebeware wrote: post #10

It makes me angry to think of how wreckless the generations before millenials were. Lead's risks and damages were well-known long before 1996. And they still didn't ban it until then.

I agree that people have been reckless with population safety in past, but your comment seems to imply that the Millenial generation are somehow flawless with regards with this subject. While safety is now more stringent than in the past, I very much doubt that this is the case.

Compared to ignoring global warming - ignoring lead exposure is a minor negligence.

Re: Lead exposure in last century shrunk IQ scores of half of Americans: study

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Post by rootusrootus »

softwarebeware wrote: post #10

It makes me angry to think of how wreckless the generations before millenials were. Lead's risks and damages were well-known long before 1996. And they still didn't ban it until then.

I don't think it helps to make this a generational warfare issue. Especially since it's not like every person in a particular generation had a say in these decisions.

It's also too easy to cast judgement backwards in time, given the lack of context and the benefit of hindsight. Better to look forward.

Re: Lead exposure in last century shrunk IQ scores of half of Americans: study

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Post by phphphphp »

softwarebeware wrote: post #10

It makes me angry to think of how wreckless the generations before millenials were. Lead's risks and damages were well-known long before 1996. And they still didn't ban it until then.

We are just as dumb. Processed meat causes cancer, micro plastics are doing all sorts to us: arguably, we are dumber, because we know all about the harm that lead and cigarettes cause and yet… we haven’t applied that lesson. Do you eat meat?

Re: Lead exposure in last century shrunk IQ scores of half of Americans: study

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Post by alexfromapex »

softwarebeware wrote: post #10

It makes me angry to think of how wreckless the generations before millenials were. Lead's risks and damages were well-known long before 1996. And they still didn't ban it until then.

Playing devil's advocate, previous generations didn't have access to the vast, coordinated information on the scale that Millennials do.

Re: Lead exposure in last century shrunk IQ scores of half of Americans: study

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Post by rootusrootus »

miketery wrote: post #20
softwarebeware wrote: post #10

It makes me angry to think of how wreckless the generations before millenials were. Lead's risks and damages were well-known long before 1996. And they still didn't ban it until then.

Same goes for sugar. We know the dangers it poses, we are also seeing how much it increases risk of death due to covid. I don't think we should be surpsied, as much as pushing to regulate this garbage. As an aside, Michelle Obama's campaign when Obama was in office was about improvement children's health. Her focus was going to be on nutrition (lunch food). Shortly thereafter Coke and Pepsi came in with "donations" a…

> Same goes for sugar.

Except that presumably includes the current generation, instead of everyone pre-millenial. There is certainly not any real consensus or meaningful action being taken in regards to sugar. It is as prevalent now as it ever was.

Re: Lead exposure in last century shrunk IQ scores of half of Americans: study

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Post by qorrect »

SimplyUnknown wrote: post #16
softwarebeware wrote: post #10

It makes me angry to think of how wreckless the generations before millenials were. Lead's risks and damages were well-known long before 1996. And they still didn't ban it until then.

I agree that people have been reckless with population safety in past, but your comment seems to imply that the Millenial generation are somehow flawless with regards with this subject. While safety is now more stringent than in the past, I very much doubt that this is the case.

Yeah if anything millennial's were _taught_ to be less reckless. They didn't just come out of the womb that way :/.

Re: Lead exposure in last century shrunk IQ scores of half of Americans: study

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Post by rootusrootus »

banana_maker wrote: post #21
SimplyUnknown wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree that people have been reckless with population safety in past, but your comment seems to imply that the Millenial generation are somehow flawless with regards with this subject. While safety is now more stringent than in the past, I very much doubt that this is the case.

As of 2021, out of 432 members in the house of congress, a scant 31 are millenials. In the senate, just 1. Millenials are -not- the ones responsible for disastrous policies (yet). They haven't been around long enough yet. It's mainly boomers, some gen x, and a few silents. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/02/12/boomers-sil... edit: Added "(yet)" because it's not obvious, I suppose. My point here is that the…

Who is the largest single voting bloc?

Edit: That struck a chord with millenials, ha! Tell your friends that bitching does not help, voting does. Boomers seem to understand this and so they have a disproportionate amount of influence. You want it to stop? VOTE.

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