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If you're doing consideration of past people, give consideration to baby Thomas Midgely Jr.
He's the dude that effectively invented leaded gasoline AND chlorofluorocarbons. It can be argued that no other single human in history did more widespread damage to the environment than he did.
Just now posted about him, what a car crash of a guy.
Bro contracted lead poisoning, was informed of TEL's toxicity in 1922, and was still stupid enough to deliberately give himself lead poisoning again in 1924 to trick people into thinking it was safe.
Not only irreparable and frankly incomprehensible levels of environmental damage, but his products are cumulatively estimated to have stolen at least 824 million IQ points from people born during their use.
Dude reminds me of Wildman Whitehouse holy shit
Making the argument that you should kill scientists for their inventions is short sighted, dumb and morally dubious
Its Science, if Thomas didn't invent leaded gasoline someone else would have figured it out, an interesting parallel is Fritz Haber, discoverer of the habers process(iykyk).
Even if he invented it, it was the corpos who heavily pushed and kept it in circulation for their own benefit.
Attacking Science in any way compromises human progress, CFC's were the stepping stone to less harmful refrigerants.