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3M to end 'forever chemicals' output

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Re: 3M to end 'forever chemicals' output

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post #252

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That's in the range of 10x the CO2 an average human will produce in their lifetime. If you could find a way to get 20 people to cut their emissions in half, or 200 people to reduce it by 5%, or 1000 people by 1%, you could balance out your CO2 ledger :) Or, if you still work in the industry and can find a way to make the shipping routes more efficient, or prevent future mistakes like that, you could make it into the…

(Controversial comment warning) one way to save more than your lifetime’s worth of CO2 is to not have children. By not having children, you’re not just saving the CO2 output of the child itself, but the entire lineage that could have resulted from that single child. Obviously this advice is not good advice for anyone who wants to have children :)

The planet will be fine, co2 is plant food, they are literaly starving for it.

If anything, we will not have enought humans around with our birth rate.

Technology is getting cleaner and cleaner each year: ev, solar panels, etc.

Look into Tony Seba for the energy revolution And joan Lomberg about what are our most important problems and solutions

I think we should put far less energy on climate change and more on our human problems: war, famine, poverty, corruption, etc.

Re: 3M to end 'forever chemicals' output

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post #397

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I would like to know when I'm buying toxins. Overheating teflon pans will kill any pet birds in the house. It's also not great for humans (but details have been suppressed by large corporate campaigns) But try to find a pan without teflon? impossible to determine (almost) I remember finding that hexclad alledgedly doesn't use teflon... until I found out they do ... and they put it on the OUTSIDE of the pan too. ugh.

Cast iron works just fine. And I never saw a teflon pan in any professional kitchen.

I've been to events/cafeterias with made-to-order omelettes and they all use small nonstick frying pans. (not refuting that most kitchens use stainless/etc, just a data point)

Re: 3M to end 'forever chemicals' output

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Tap water is vastly different depending on where it is sourced. In my experience, most countries have pretty bad tap water.

But if you carefully filter and re-mineralise it before bottling, you can turn it into more or less the same product anywhere.

Not really talking about bottling- in Scandinavia their tap water is better than most bottled water.
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