Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito confirmed Friday he’s staying on the nation’s highest court, weeks after a swell of speculation about a possible retirement.
“Obviously, I’m here for another term,” Alito, 76, said in an interview published in The Wall Street Journal’s editorial section.
Discussion of Alito’s future hit a fever pitch in June, when a mistake by a veteran Supreme Court reporter at National Public Radio resulted in the erroneous publication of a previously prepared retirement story.
Is there a reason it can’t be plastic? Surely it’s not like the negative effects of lead poisoning were unknown 50 years ago, with people instead just ignoring it because it was the only option or was cheaper or everyone else was using it or something, all of which excuses apply equally to plastics.
I mean, we already know plastic is fucking us…
50 years ago plastic would have been the answer, but none of us would have guessed that.
My point was, statistically there are things right now we think of neutrally or even positively that future generations will say was a major contributer to something really fucked up that might not even be manifesting yet.
Actually, I think I know what the thing we’ll be disappointed in will be: rubber tires. Tire wear releases non-trivial amounts of carcinogenic particulate into the air, and as far as I’m aware that problem just goes unacknowledged.
It so happens lead based paint was banned nearly 50 years ago (1978), so it’s not like it was exactly ignored.
Restrictions on lead additives in gasoline also began in the 1970s…