May 20, 2022 05:29 PM
https://www.science20.com/hank_campbell/...ire_safety
INTRO: The activist group Environment and Climate Change Canada has gotten political allies inside the government's Health Canada division to try and lobby for bans on decabromodiphenyl ethane - without having a replacement for a flame retardant used to keep home appliances, electronics, and electric wires and cables safe.
That is an unnecessary increase in risk, not to mention a high price increase for Canadians already in the midst of a supply chain crisis.
Beyond fire itself or smoke inhalation, residents once faced risk of explosion too - "flashover", a gaseous reaction caused by the oxidation of things like furniture during a fire. Chemists caused that risk to plummet using breakthroughs in coatings that prevented it.
Relieved families have happily paid for protection on furniture and governments mandated it but a new century, one whose progress allowed some so disenfranchised from reality they believe using cell phone to order "organic" food and have it delivered to homes, have created a New Shamanism, grounded in the belief that the Old Ways were viable - and paeans to being more natural were always better.
Natural is one of those Sweet Little Lies marketing departments can tell, and environmental groups can sell, but Canada should not allow it to become policy and put lives at risk.
Yet activists and now a government agency claim lives are 'at risk' due to chemicals, that potential degradation of DBDPE is a worry despite the science consensus. Yet the risk of fires and other damage without decabromodiphenyl ethane is established while the risk of the chemical to nature and humans is the science equivalent of Joe Rogan saying 'I don't know, man' when talking to experts - doubt without any evidence... (MORE - details)
INTRO: The activist group Environment and Climate Change Canada has gotten political allies inside the government's Health Canada division to try and lobby for bans on decabromodiphenyl ethane - without having a replacement for a flame retardant used to keep home appliances, electronics, and electric wires and cables safe.
That is an unnecessary increase in risk, not to mention a high price increase for Canadians already in the midst of a supply chain crisis.
Beyond fire itself or smoke inhalation, residents once faced risk of explosion too - "flashover", a gaseous reaction caused by the oxidation of things like furniture during a fire. Chemists caused that risk to plummet using breakthroughs in coatings that prevented it.
Relieved families have happily paid for protection on furniture and governments mandated it but a new century, one whose progress allowed some so disenfranchised from reality they believe using cell phone to order "organic" food and have it delivered to homes, have created a New Shamanism, grounded in the belief that the Old Ways were viable - and paeans to being more natural were always better.
Natural is one of those Sweet Little Lies marketing departments can tell, and environmental groups can sell, but Canada should not allow it to become policy and put lives at risk.
Yet activists and now a government agency claim lives are 'at risk' due to chemicals, that potential degradation of DBDPE is a worry despite the science consensus. Yet the risk of fires and other damage without decabromodiphenyl ethane is established while the risk of the chemical to nature and humans is the science equivalent of Joe Rogan saying 'I don't know, man' when talking to experts - doubt without any evidence... (MORE - details)