While we’re distracted by pronouns, UFOs, & Woke Jesus, it’s important to remember that over 100,000 gallons of burning vinyl chloride is destroying the air, water, soil, & living creatures of Palestine, Ohio.

This is one of the biggest ecological disasters in American history.

@JazzAficionado Honestly don't think this is that big of a deal. Vinyl chloride is a gas at room temperature and has a pretty okay half life of 1.5 days in the air. When it burns, it turns primarily into phosgene, which although very acutely toxic when concentrated, dissipates rapidly and has negligible trace toxicity.

Vinyl chloride is particularly dangerous as an occupational pollutant, given constant exposure of low concentration (1/2)

@JazzAficionado I have a hard time accepting this as uniquely damaging moreso than the plants that leak it constantly into the air, or that leak actual persistent pollutants like PLOPs or PFASes, and I wish people didn't suddenly get concerned about environmental science when the pollution is unintentional and part of a literal trainwreck.