Getting "forever chemicals" out of drinking water is expensive

As a society we seem far too willing to accept and deal with companies that make surplus profit by ignoring or obfuscating the unbounded negative externalities of what they're doing (at least until legislation catches up, by which point often the consequences have become so severe as to be economically infeasible to extract reparation from the causer). Chemical pollution is one example, but we also have social media with its impacts on mental health, ad-tech, fast food, fast fashion, the list goes on and on.

It's almost like we need a threshold - if you're going to provide whatever you're providing to more than, say, a few tens or hundreds of thousands of people, you need to demonstrate that your company is insured to cover the full cost of whatever negative externalities you might cause, no matter how far in the future they might be discovered. At least then insurance companies would be incentivised to do thorough homework about the downsides and costs would be priced into the product appropriately.

This will be one of the defining questions of the 21st century

> Getting "forever chemicals" out of drinking water is expensive

That's why you should go buy bottled water. /s

This is the third one today. /s