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Wait they're talking about lead in gasoline? I don't mainstream news much
It used hence why boomers are so braindead and lack any common sense on how to run a functioning society.
Don't forget the old lead water pipes. Because we didn't learn anything from the fall of the Roman Empire.
Like the fact that diversity kept it together and attempting to enforce unity of culture shattered it?
Or that a great way to win loyal allies is to generously reward them with citizenship benefits, while making treaties with barbarians to have them defeat your enemies and then snubbing them is a great way to suddenly have a bunch of new enemies you need to find new allies to fight?
Or that having the military meddle in the affairs of civil government tends to get quite expensive and end up quite ruinous?
Gosh, there really are a lot of things that went wrong. I guess lead pipes go on the pile too, and maybe "climate change can fuck shit up really badly".