Nah, worst case scenario: none of the two of them know it's toxic (why bother with the EPA and all their 'checks'), both of them die, or get disabled or sick children.
If anyone thinks the "good old times" were that good, one just has to look into stuff like lead paint, asbestos and DDT.
They were toxic trash right from their invention, but it took decades to identify and regulate them. You were/are sitting on a timebomb without even knowing it.
"ignorance" might be "bliss", but it's also the greatest danger to a free society. And even worse - ignorance of ignorace.
Current discussion here: water price will rise about 40%ish, because phosphate levels are so high thanks to over-urination of fields, which gets deeper and deeper into the water supplies, which require better and better water treatment facility to cope with the pollution and get it to "can wash your face with it" levels. [knocked out]
(that's the stuff I'm talking bout .. pure animal pee pee:
http://www.wz.de/polopoly_fs/1.9009...gen/derivatives/landscape_550/onlineImage.jpg )
Oh, and despite my usual grouchyness, that's actually a great achievement. If more people lived closer to that, we'd have less issues.
Also a better approach to promoting "modern" life (who would have thought Lysander is a secret progressive?) - trough energy and food independence as well as the "high tech toy" appeal of new solutions.
Problem is still that in a largely wasteful society, the individual contribution pales.
but I'm use to it, when they see I'm right (because being green is actually a good economic way of living) they always ask "how do you do it?"