The German scientists uncovered a contaminant spreading through Europe’s waterways: an indestructible substance called trifluoroacetic acid (TFA).
Fluorocarbon products need to be banned now; the chemicals are toxic forever; there is no way to prevent them from entering the environment. The chemicals just keep accumulating in rivers, lakes, seas, oceans, and all plants and animals. Concentrations have risen 5-fold since 1990.
Toxic forever ... means toxic forever ... concentrations do not decrease, and as the concentration increases, toxicity increases. Toxic chemical pollution and ecosystem destruction have destroyed 75% of all life on Earth since 1970, and it continues to decline at a rate of 2% year on year. Do the maths; it is not difficult to know the end point.
Unless we deal with this problem now, there will be no future. We need green chemistry to find alternatives or ban toxic forever chemicals. The life support system for the planet is crashing as we are now well into the 6th mass extinction event. More life has been wiped off the planet than was caused by the meteorite that slammed into the Gulf of Mexico 66 million years ago, except on this occasion, that planet is going to be sterilised unless we deal with the issues.
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