Geography @mander.xyz fossilesque @mander.xyz 4mo ago

Rainwater unsafe to drink due to chemicals: study

phys.org Rainwater unsafe to drink due to chemicals: study

Rainwater everywhere on the planet is unsafe to drink due to levels of toxic chemicals known as PFAS that exceed the latest guidelines, according to a new study by Stockholm University scientists.

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All good. Im sure all the animals on planet earth can get a water filter for themselves.
- Untapped market. Pun intended.
"We have made the planet inhospitable to human life by irreversibly contaminating it now so that nothing is clean anymore. And to the point that's it's not clean enough to be safe", he said.

"We have crossed a planetary boundary", he said, referring to a central paradigm for evaluating Earth's capacity to absorb the impact of human activity.
"I'm not super concerned about the everyday exposure in mountain or stream water or in the food. We can't escape it... we're just going to have to live with it." "But it's not a great situation to be in, where we've contaminated the environment to the point where background exposure is not really safe."

WTF? It's not safe but you're not concerned?

Also, fuck Dupont.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_rain
Wait, I thought that when water evaporated, it became completely pure water vapor. Isn’t that why we get salt crystals and the like?
- Pure water picks up all manner of chemicals from the air it falls through. If there is an excess of carbon, sulfur, or toxic chemicals, they can get dissolved or carried by the water to the ground.
  
  That's where acid rain came from.
  
  Whoa, that makes sense but is still wild. Thank you!
- Not all elements evaporate, but many do. Atoms/chrmicals/elements/etc are far more complex than the average education would lead one to believe. Water for example isn't even always H2O, there is H3O water. There's also radioactive water that is physically indistinguishable from water, but you know, radioactive.
  
  Interesting, thank you!

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