I had no idea that the degree of reduction could be so high. After watching the movie, I read the long article on NYT from beginning to end, and found that the movie is really hardly exaggerated, and I can’t move my body on one side even under pressure. I thought the details made up were true. To record some thoughts about watching movies and articles.
About Rob and Taft
During Rob, there were two chances to get out of his body. Once in 2000, Tennant settled with DuPont, and the law firm could get the contingency fee to end the lawsuit. The other time was when DuPont decided to settle in a class action in 2004. Rob brought a return of 21.7M to the law firm, which can be regarded as a success. But both times he did not choose to stop, and since then he has never filed a lawsuit on behalf of the company. As for the reasons for doing this, he quoted him several times in the article as "It's the right thing to do." There are still people in this world who insist on their inner right and wrong.
In addition, I think Taft is a great law firm, and there are many lawyers with a strong sense of morality. Although Rob was under a lot of pressure, the law firm allowed an appeal against DuPont in the early stage. It must be known that this will definitely bring a lot of trouble to the law firm that specializes in the defense of chemical companies, and it will still be the case when the battle line is stretched in the later stage. Continue to support and pay a lot of money. I think this is already very difficult. To digress, in the film, the black actor was actually a bad ass who worshipped money. Haha.
About pollution and supervision
The NYT article mentioned that in 1976, 3M and DuPont knew that PFOA not only threatens the human body through drinking sewage, but also poses a threat to the health of all the public. When did the EPA analyze and come to this conclusion Woolen cloth? year 2002.
Since government supervision cannot keep up with the company's R&D innovation, there are still more than 60,000 chemical materials not under supervision, and we have no idea of what we are being exposed to. In the movie, Anne Hathaway asked the doctor in the hospital whether it was possible that her husband was poisoned and the previous conclusion that she did not believe that her husband thought DuPont was a threat to public health. The two were more helpless.
In addition, the article mentioned that in 2000, 3M stopped producing PFOA. As a result, DuPont simply built its own factory to produce it. It didn't stop production and use of PFOA until 2013. The profit-making heart of the company and the ineffective government supervision made people speechless.
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