More than 100 million ‘novel entity’ chemicals are in circulation, with health impact not widely recognised
You know else isn’t widely recognized? The uncountable number of novel entities that are a result of interactions between any those 100 million entities. Any of those chemical pollutants could be, and almost certainly are, out there reacting with each other generating new chemicals that we know nothing about and could be having any number of effects on the biology of any organism they come in contact with. Our atmosphere and bodies of water are a witches brew of nobody knows what and we aren’t doing anything about it other than pouring more chemicals into it.
You know else isn’t widely recognized? The uncountable number of novel entities that are a result of interactions between any those 100 million entities. Any of those chemical pollutants could be, and almost certainly are, out there reacting with each other generating new chemicals that we know nothing about and could be having any number of effects on the biology of any organism they come in contact with. Our atmosphere and bodies of water are a witches brew of nobody knows what and we aren’t doing anything about it other than pouring more chemicals into it.