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Why Is There So Much Lead in the Environment?
The mining and smelting of lead within the human environment is actually a monumental crime committed by humanity against itself, period. Is using led regardless. The e p a did slowly start catching up to the science and banning lead from things,. But to pat that wasn't the purpose of science, not like real science. He started looking at ie cores that went all the way back to 800 b c. And what he found was this wasn't the first time that this had even happened. You know, like greeks, romans, every empire has poisoned themselves with lead. For two thousand years, we have been unable to understand the evil that we are doing to ourselves.
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