Sources and Toxicity of Mercury in the San Francisco Bay Area, Spanning California and Beyond:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7519205/

Did they pay for their own R&D? Usually that get socialized and then the profits are privatized, it’s the American Way.

tragedy of the commons

TILAW (today I learned a word):

The tragedy of the commons is a metaphoric label for a concept that is widely discussed in economics, ecology and other sciences. According to the concept, should a number of people enjoy unfettered access to a finite, valuable resource such as a pasture, they will tend to over-use it, and may end up destroying its value altogether. To exercise voluntary restraint is not a rational choice for individuals – if they did, the other users would merely supplant them – yet the predictable result is a tragedy for all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons