jakeaggie84 said:
So we should keep the toxins going? Let's try and stop most toxins and poisons. Top 100 or not. I would love my 4 kids to have as little toxicity exposure as possible. I guess I'm in the minority with that position. I'm fine with that I guess.
So do you let them drink from plastic cups? Drink soda, juice, or water from plastic bottles? Do you use roundup or other pesticides or herbicides on your lawn? Give your pets topical flea killer treatments before letting your kids pet and snuggle with them? All of those are likely exposing your kids to more potential toxins at higher doses, more frequently, and for a longer duration than what they might get if they stood out in a rain storm drinking rainfall from a seeded cloud.
Toxicology studies for chronic exposures are typically done based on 25-70 year life cycles of exposure. Given the infrequent nature of rain seeding operations and the wide area over which the relatively small events are scattered, you might be really unlucky to find yourself under 2-3 events in the course of 10-20 years. That level of exposure is absolutely nothing compared to what you get from the off-gassing of plastic in the interior of your car every day, the stain resistant treatments in the carpet your toddler is crawling on, the microplastics in the beverages they drink, the chemical residue on their backyard playground from the farmer down the road crop dusting his fields 3 times a year, or the PFAS in and on the water and products you consume.
You are welcome to keep worrying about it and go to your local water authority or regional water planning group meetings to argue against it, but unless you are as militant about all the other things I mentioned and dozens of others that are similar in nature, you are barking at an ant on your sidewalk and ignoring the dozens of anthills in your yard.
