The many among us who already avoid those products, or who haven't gotten practical access to them, may be surprised by the tradeoffs you describe.
Just because a technology has become pervasive in some lives doesn't mean that it does a lot that matters. Like any other tradition, its value is often incidental and its popularity is mostly an accident of history (marketing, curiosity, fashion, ephemeral supply/industry shocks, etc).
Nonstick pans and synthetic fabrics are very much in that group.
Just because a technology has become pervasive in some lives doesn't mean that it does a lot that matters. Like any other tradition, its value is often incidental and its popularity is mostly an accident of history (marketing, curiosity, fashion, ephemeral supply/industry shocks, etc).
Nonstick pans and synthetic fabrics are very much in that group.