The global cost of lead exposure was US$6·0 trillion (range 2·6–9·0) in 2019, which was equivalent to 6·9% (3·1–10·4) of the global gross domestic product, stated in a report just published in the Lancet; https://lnkd.in/eiRsNVxh
In addition to lead, you also have pollution from mercury and all the other heavy metals; however, if this wasn’t bad enough, the real big killers are toxic forever chemicals and molecular plastics such as PCBs, PBDE, and PFOS. What’s the impact on Nature, Human health, and the GDP of these chemicals? The answer is that they will cost the Earth! Not in 100 years but over the next 10 to 20 years.
bioclimatic climate change; https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN
