I totally disagree. Industrial safety (and every kind of safety) has vastly improved, even to the point of there now being a pathological safetyism problem.
I do not believe we can be safe enough. For example, Michigan is #1 for PFAS pollution. For years, companies dumped into the environment and contaminated ground and underground water. You can not eat the fish taken out of some lakes.
In 2023, US Judge warned Flint officials to complete the replacement of lead piping supplying water to homes. This is an old issue going back a decade. That the state and the city are still not fixing this is problematic. Whether the water is treated properly or not, lead piping should be replaced.
Gelman Sciences Ann Arbor Michigan watered their grass with a mixture of water and 1,4-dioxane. It was thought by the owner and others sunlight would breakdown the 1,4-dioxane. It didn'e and many were drinking bottled water. This is still going on in 2023.
"We have written before about how 31,000 Americans died on the roads last year because of stupid -- drunk, unbuckled or speeding. In Halifax 100 years ago, thousands were killed or injured because of stupid." People believe they have a right to go as fast as they wish on highways. It is dangerous as the amount of time to react is lessened. Add to this, tailgating because they can not exceed the speed limit when someone else is passing another vehicle. It is all about them.
We still are endangered by poor and bad practices. Much of it is due to enforcement.
Mushroom cloud image shown is actually from the 1945 explosion of a munition dump on the eastern shore of Bedford Basin. At least they learned to move munitions outside the city. That blast still has neighbouring woods and anchorages off limits due to possible left over ordnances, and the city now grows around and ever closer to what is still an active military storage area.
The 1918 mushroom cloud is much more impressive and can be seen on the wikipedia page.
I totally disagree. Industrial safety (and every kind of safety) has vastly improved, even to the point of there now being a pathological safetyism problem.
Lloyd:
I do not believe we can be safe enough. For example, Michigan is #1 for PFAS pollution. For years, companies dumped into the environment and contaminated ground and underground water. You can not eat the fish taken out of some lakes.
In 2023, US Judge warned Flint officials to complete the replacement of lead piping supplying water to homes. This is an old issue going back a decade. That the state and the city are still not fixing this is problematic. Whether the water is treated properly or not, lead piping should be replaced.
Gelman Sciences Ann Arbor Michigan watered their grass with a mixture of water and 1,4-dioxane. It was thought by the owner and others sunlight would breakdown the 1,4-dioxane. It didn'e and many were drinking bottled water. This is still going on in 2023.
"We have written before about how 31,000 Americans died on the roads last year because of stupid -- drunk, unbuckled or speeding. In Halifax 100 years ago, thousands were killed or injured because of stupid." People believe they have a right to go as fast as they wish on highways. It is dangerous as the amount of time to react is lessened. Add to this, tailgating because they can not exceed the speed limit when someone else is passing another vehicle. It is all about them.
We still are endangered by poor and bad practices. Much of it is due to enforcement.
With you Lloyd
So Lloyd, how much risk needs to be removed from Life and what will the cost (money, opportunities, other actions) be for removing all risk?
Mushroom cloud image shown is actually from the 1945 explosion of a munition dump on the eastern shore of Bedford Basin. At least they learned to move munitions outside the city. That blast still has neighbouring woods and anchorages off limits due to possible left over ordnances, and the city now grows around and ever closer to what is still an active military storage area.
The 1918 mushroom cloud is much more impressive and can be seen on the wikipedia page.