I’m just amazed that we knew asbestos was bad for over a 1000 years, and in the USA only banned it a few years ago, other countries not much longer before.
With asbestos, one has to wonder if there was just no good substitute for some of it’s properties. While it’s very rare to see used these days, there are still some careful applications for it. Lead is the same way. Lead solder and even lead pipes was commonly used up until a relatively short time ago for water supplies.
The Romans knew how bad asbestos was.
But not lead…
I’m just amazed that we knew asbestos was bad for over a 1000 years, and in the USA only banned it a few years ago, other countries not much longer before.
With asbestos, one has to wonder if there was just no good substitute for some of it’s properties. While it’s very rare to see used these days, there are still some careful applications for it. Lead is the same way. Lead solder and even lead pipes was commonly used up until a relatively short time ago for water supplies.
They did know that lead was toxic.
Then they didn’t much care I guess. Which was worse than not knowing.