Not sure if this is offtopic but…
My parents grew up in China but still emotionally abusive af, did China also have leaded gasoline, or did the wind just blew all the toxicity of lead from the US all the way across the world? (None of us even stepped foot in the US until like around 2010s, I think leaded gas was already banned by then…) 🤔
Or maybe my parents are just naturally born toxic… 😓
China didn’t ban it until 2000.
It’s still legal in like Afghanistan and North Korea.
Japan was the first to ban it in 1986.
Edit: to answer your question more accurately, any country with vehicles that had engines prone to knocking had it. So yes, it was very much in the atmosphere of China.
I was born after 2000 so I guess I’m fine? Does lead poisoning get passed down?
Yea I think my parents just have lead poisoning and that why they be toxic af.
My brother born before 2000 has weird racist views and conspiracy theories. Is that the lead poisoning manifesting?
While the lead poisoning wouldn’t cause the toxic thinking, racism, and belief in conspiracy theories - it would have made them much more susceptible to it from those around them.
Like all good science, correlation does not imply causation. However, we do know that lead does accumulate in brain tissue, and we can see that the rise of lead in the atmosphere had a very strong correlation with violent crime, and the reduction of it reduced violent crime. This study and IQ show the relationship as well.
We’re all still being affected by this to some extent. Effectively by putting it in the gas and burning it, we also spread it though out the environment. Obviously not as bad as rawdawging the fumes themselves like the lead head boomer and genexers, but it’s in the dust of the world you live in. You are doing way better than the generations previously. Interestingly, the generations looking to roll back the kind of regulations that protected you are the ones most affected by the lead (boomer, Gen x).
They used lead for sure, but there might have been fewer cars depending on where they lived.
Lead is probably one of the least bad things you’ve inhaled if you lived in a Chinese large or industrial city between 2000 and 2024. So you’re likely tainted as well. Sorry.
We all still get mercury from the food because many countries still allow burning waste/garbage in outdated plants without proper smoke cleaning installed. And then it spreads through the atmosphere and gets into the local food cycle when it rains. This effect is global. That’s why you shouldn’t eat fish from lakes if you’re pregnant etc. Doesn’t matter where you live.
