I would also say this attitude was pervasive when we used leaded gasoline, which widely contaminated the biosphere, roads and people.

It's everywhere. We all have it. Why bother.

I think we now know there's no safe level of lead in the blood. If you have suspected exposure in 2023, doctors quantify your lead level through a blood test and if it's elevated, recommend a medical procedure called chelation to remove it.

With PFAS, the medicine is just starting to catch up to the horrors of the news cycle.

But I think in the future, PFAS contamination is going to be treated in a similar way to lead exposure. That is, medically.

But right now, it's easy to throw up ones hands and say, it's all fucked. Why bother doing anything.