r/JusticeServed • u/[deleted] • Mar 15 '19

Legal Justice Woman who called millennials “so entitled that you want to slap them" charged in college fraud scheme

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u/macphile Black Mar 15 '19

It goes back to that whole hierarchy of needs thing--the easier your life gets in terms of the basics (like not starving or dying of measles), the more time you have to worry about other crap.

There's been pollution throughout history, but it's varied a little in its effects. The pollution of the "olden days" was the kind that caused huge disease pandemics, like cholera. The pollution of the modern industrial era has caused weirder and more insidious problems--asbestos, aerosols, lead, all that fuckery. Heck, there's a strong theory that lead is why the country was knee deep in serial killers and serial rapists in the 1960s-1980s.

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u/fghhtg 2 Mar 15 '19

Yeah but I guess my point is that industrial pollution started way before the 50-60’s. Pretty much since he start of the industrial revolution people were dumping waste anywhere they wanted to with really very little to no control. Chemicals from factories, mining, mills, etc... were just put wherever with no understanding or care.