>>1863506>noise pollution127 replies and not one mention of pollution (the physical or chemical kind).
Obviously there is a tendency on /n/ like everywhere else, to ignore what really fucks us in the end. Studies have shown that the benefits of exercise are pretty much neutralized by pollution. And no one who rides hasn't put the realization that we're the least protected and most exposed to it, on the roadway. We put it out of our minds because we're simple creatures.
We've accepted 1st, that since technology has made modern pollution mostly odorless, mostly invisible, that it doesn't exist. We don't want to know the truth: the truth is we are living in an age of pollution an 18th century Londoner would blush at, but there is zero incentive for anyone to acknowledge it.
The new pollution is everywhere, growing and insidious, and is already inside all of our bodies doing whatever- we don't fucking know from a medical or scientific standpoint.
These pollutants are so small, and many times, a unique or proprietary molecule that, in order to study, scietists have to basically invent new technology to detect.
And companies, and their trade groups in collusoin with govenments, keep these forumlae secret. And we, the gullible public are just fucking retarded.
Like, how many brain-dead commuters who have to get new tires every 5 years think, "Hey... where did that tire literally go?" it is beyond bizarre that if you dump waste in a river, you're a polluter, but if you drain it out as leaks on the road, its fine. If I throw my plastic wrapper on the ground, its littering, but if I vaporize it and blow in your face and you can't tell the difference, its all good. Our consumer industry just treats the world as an open sewer where everything just magically disappears. It obviously doesn't.
I will repeat: today's pollution is as bad or worse than anything in history, don't let ignorant, motivated morons convince you otherwise.