If it was so bad as the headline suggests, we would be all dead by now! Very revealing, the article names only one mercury poison scandal, i.e. Minimata that happened 60 years ago! "Infamously, due to the release of methylmercury in industrial wastewater from a chemical factory of the Chisso Corporation from the 1930s to the 1960s, thousands of people who ate fish and shellfish in the region of Minamata, Japan, contracted severe mercury poisoning."
Then we have had the lead paint scare, the lead additive in gasoline scare ...
Mercury emissions total 1.5 million tonnes over last 500 years – Physics World: "In no way do we just need to worry about how much we release today," says researcher
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