• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    421·
    20 days ago

    Put the coke back in the coca-cola. Put the lithium back in the 7-up.

    Probably fix about 80% of whats wrong right now.

    • Otter@lemmy.ca
      271·
      20 days ago

      Meanwhile, the presence of lead in gasoline and paint back then, might be the actual reason for 80% of what’s wrong right now.

      Many of the lawmakers and elected officials grew up in environments that had that lead exposure

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead–crime_hypothesis

      The lead–crime hypothesis proposes that the sharp decline in crime rates in the industrialised world in the 1990s and beyond, after decades of increased crime, can be attributed to the reduction of lead poisoning. Lead is widely understood to be toxic to multiple organs of the human body, particularly the human brain. Concerns about even low levels of exposure began in the 1970s; in the decades since, scientists have concluded that no safe threshold for lead exposure exists.[1][2] The major source of lead exposure during the 20th century was leaded gasoline. The hypothesis argues that the removal of lead additives from motor fuel, and the consequent decline in children’s lead exposure, explains the fall in crime rates in the United States beginning in the 1990s.[3] This hypothesis also offers an explanation of the rise in crime in the preceding decades as the result of increased lead exposure throughout the mid-20th century.[4] Other explanations have been proposed, including situational crime prevention and interactions between many other factors with complex, multifactorial causation.[5]

      • Ghost_Mermaid@lemmy.zip
        12·
        20 days ago

        I looked at at crime rates in American cities in 2012. The highest was in Flint, Michigan, which still has a lead pipe problem.

        The Romans ate off of lead plates and enjoyed watching gladiators fight, women being raped by animals and other atrocities in the Coliseum. I’ve read dissertations that perpetuated the idea that lead poisoning was a major factor in this cultural phenomenon.

        I was born in 1971 and grew up breathing lead fumes in a large city. Yes, I believe leaded gasoline and lead paint have been a serious problem.

        • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          20 days ago

          I was born in 1971 and grew up breathing lead fumes in a large city.

          Woah, woah, woah, now, calm down there, Mr. Criminal

          (kidding, but born in 1975 and I wonder how much I’ve been affected by lead, although I don’t have a criminal history. Maybe I got lucky in my timing)