>>1102907>How is being a condescending prick working out for you btw?Pretty good, especially considering you're the one talking down to people, scaremongering, using "muh feelings" non-arguments, and personal attacks while I'm using facts.
But you do you.
Again, when the rivers turn to actual vinegar is when we have to worry about lead leaching from sinkers. But rivers don't turn to vinegar naturally. It takes A LOT of industrial pollution for that to happen. Not that it can't happen, but you'd see lots of symptoms of it first, like fish kills where ALL of the fish in the river die. At that point, nobody's fishing in the river anyway, and people (rightly) start prosecuting the polluters.
Here's a story of an archaeologist in northern England (the heavily industrialized part) who goes diving for medieval artifacts:
http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/medieval-post-medieval-artefacts-from-the-river-wear-durham-city/One of the things he finds are medieval cloth roll lseals made of lead-it's his particular thing and he's found A LOT of them. And after having spent centuries in the river at the exact same spot they fell in, they're still in perfect shape.
>>1102917>muh heavy metals scaremongering>muh America bashing. >I ask in serenity...lolSince you've decided to be condescending to everyone else, here's some REAL condescension back. And I'll use small words this time so you can understand.
Humans know about lead. We have for centuries. When it's pure, it is A LOT less scary than you make it out to seem.
Lead is used for fishing nearly everywhere around the world, because THEY have read the research-unlike you-and found that lead is not hazardous to the environment when it's not in conditions that cause it to deteriorate. And water that's at the temperature of most rivers does not cause it to deteriorate.
This is common knowledge, and understood by people who aren't idiots. Now you know, and you're welcome.
