Novel entities: Are we sleepwalking through a planetary boundary?

Mongabay
Sep 23, 2021, 8:23 am158 pts
Hinkley, California, USA, 1952-1966: A Pacific Gas and Electric powerplant releases 1.4 billion liters (370 million gallons) of wastewater laced with carcinogenic chromium-6 into unlined ponds, polluting groundwater for the town’s 2,000 residents, leading to a successful $333 million class-action lawsuit (and…

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