doomer

This is why I think we need to be speaking in terms of "planetary crisis" rather than "climate change", because the changing climate is only half of it. We're already annihilating the biosphere without cranking the temperature up, and even if we magically dropped CO2 to pre-industrial levels, we'd still be staring down the barrel of a severe crisis.

This is the shit that really gets me at the end of the day. Knowing that nowhere on the entire planet is safe from this stuff and we have no idea of the long term consequences is just a lot to handle

having some issues with eggs sticking to the pan vs poisoning every water source on earth

is that even a question?

To be fair, this is talking about limits that the EU is proposing, not whatever the UK currently has in place. You have to actually implement these standards and punish corporations for breaking them to actually change anything, which I would not expect from the

Oi! You got a loisence for all that PFOS Mr. Haddock? We set these limits for your own good you know! Why are we going to hurt corporations using the stuff when you're out here bio-accumulating it all anyway?!