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It’s kind of wild just how useful asbestos actually was. Aside from the obvious issues, it was genuinely a miracle material that did all sorts of cool things. Too bad our insides hate it more than just about anything else.
Still is, honestly. We still use asbestos in a ton of stuff, but we’re just generally a lot more careful about using it fortunately, and not doing as many open-air asbestos shoveling competitions upwind from the schoolyard.
Somebody still has to mine it though
Sure, I’m not saying it’s necessarily a good thing that we’re still using it, but recognizing and treating it as a serious carcinogen rather than something benign goes a long way to improving the amount of harm it causes
Reducing the amount of harm it causes*… Unless?
That’s what orphans and monkey grinders are for
Hot take: I think it should be the pensioners that mine asbestos because they’re dying soon anyway
It’s not that hard to make and use PPE for the miners. Whether or not it’s enforced is another question, but with how easy asbestos lawsuits seem to be, they probably are.
Jetfuel can’t melt asbestos beams
Sure can weaken them though
Yes and office fires can too
There were the whole MAGAZINE of just asbestos???
Would you believe, that the whole magazine was actually printed on refined asbestos too?
