• TomMasz@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    GM, DuPont, and Standard Oil poisoned the world just because ethanol was too easy to make.

    Midgley also created Freon and other CFCs that almost destroyed the ozone layer. But on a lighter note, Midgley died when the mechanism he designed to help him get out of bed after becoming partially paralyzed from polio strangled him (though it may have been intentional).

  • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    True, but have you stop and consider that it was profitable?

    you just think about poor people, and children, and the environment. But have you considered that shareholders want money without needing to work?