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Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair
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That and generational trauma from two world wars.
That said there is a lot of data that seems to state that the drop in violent crime and crime in general had a lot to do with not having lead addled brains.
The auto industry knowing what the lead did and pushing for roads to be built in over or through black neighborhoods should be persecuted the same way tobacco was supposed to be.
No Boomer, by definition, has seen any world war.
Boomers, by definition, were raised by generations who did though.
Generational trauma.
I know my boomer parents were raised by people who were traumatized by war and it impacted them.
The boomers also lived through Vietnam, so sure not a world war but a war just the same. We Americans are “spoiled” insomuch as war happens “somewhere else”
No, but the trauma from the war generations is passed on to the boomers. One of the pioneers on research of generational trauma is a son of a Holocaust survivor. His first observation of generational trauma was when his dad told him to just do what he says without question. And even though the researcher was a child at the time, he already acutely noted that his dad sounded like the Nazis who persecuted him. A lot of family members, unfortunately, bear the brunt of emotional lashing out of those who experienced conflicts.