many of the universities now have EPA career prep degrees...b.s. and master’s in Environmental Engineering...I call these, handout engineers.
“Will common sense ever prevail?”
Not as long as the enemedia control the public debate.
“Will common sense ever prevail?”
Not likely. The gov has spent, and continues to spend, quite a bit of time and effort using the exact same arguments concerning second hand tobacco smoke.
They’ve done a pretty good job propagandizing many into believing that what amounts to trivial levels of exposure to harmful substances are gravely dangerous.
one of the things that separates us from poor countries like those in Africa is good quality water. Down here in the tampa area whenever they have a hurricane or just a big storm they dump sewage into the bay and tributaries. This causes a considerable problem with the drinking water and it also feeds th”red tide that hangs around and kills all fish in the Gulf. This is not a new problem, it is to me since I just moved here only to discover that the water was bad and the beaches were uninhabitable during the “off season”