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Noah highlights the disastrous causal effect that lead pollution (lead plumbing, lead paint) has on crime levels, health, IQ, etc. Note: lead paint was banned in Australia in 1906, in France in 1948. It stayed in use in the US until 1978, thanks to lobbying by the lead industry.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1139209207729684480 …
Time and time again in the US, tiny economic interests (on the order of tens/hundreds of millions of $ in revenue) have been able to buy regulations (or more commonly a lack thereof) that caused hundreds of billions of $ of damage over decades and ruined the health of millions.
Lead, coal, tobacco, guns... the asymmetry between the tiny amount of money at stake and the magnitude of the damage caused is staggering. Regulation is critical to the well-being of society, and unfortunately it is extremely cheap to buy (with considerable return on investment).
We did an art exhibition about it, there is no safe minimal amount of lead that can be ingested
Meanwhile Canada banned asbestos just six months ago... The strange thing about lead regulations is how expensive regulators made it to abate (starting at ~$10k). So, people ignore it, paint over it, or dispose of it illegally, which can make matters worse.
Poor Paris, lead dioxide everywhere after the fire.
That obviously explains why Australians are under the thrall of their kangaroo and emu overlords - not enough lead in the blood to make them violent.
In the US we're resigned to coexist with lead paint and lead pipes, especially if it's in poor predominantly black communities.
@noahpinion in UK lead paint banned only 1992?! Does anyone know the extent of the lead problem here? Never seen talked about.
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