• DrunkenPirate@feddit.org
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      19 days ago

      Even at that time humans were exposed to pollution. Thinking of charcoal burner, miners, blacksmiths, dyer, and some others.

      It was found that even the Romans were exposed to lead in the air that coming from mining.

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        Just imagine how they cooked with wooden fires in their huts a few thousand years ago.

        Couldn’t be healthy either.

        And as you said, as soon as we started with metal stuff, this took on a whole new dimension of pollution