Comment on E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos | The Trump administration’s move sets back a decades-long effort to end the use of the material, which is widely banned in other countries.

Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Asbestos is absolutely amazing. It’s super durable, fireproof, an amazing insulation for heat and electricity, it’s abrasion resistant and you can just dig it out of a hole basically for free.

The only teeny tiny downside is that it brutally and painfully kills tens of thousands of people every year, even decades after it was banned.

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