ah, Ryan.... that's just it. i question every chemical agent that i use. i don't use chemical cleaners at home. i don't use pesticides. i don't use insecticides. i don't use nail polish or nail polish remover. bloody hell, i've even used milk and earth pigment for paint in my house because, well, i can eat it! yes, i drive a car. yes, i use oil and gasoline. but your thinking is contradictory and faulty: you say you adhere to LNT principles but oh well your little use of acetone isn't hurting anything. sure, acetone exists in nature. but you're not using natural acetone on the rock. you're using synthetic acetone. it's precisely the same thinking as the person who says, "my little sharpie on one little rock isn't hurting anything".RyGuy wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 11:31 am
Shelly- As noted above, Acetone is an organic solvent and does exist in your body even. While it evaporates into the environment, so does gasoline, alcohol and many other cleaners/solvents. Lets be pragmatic here. I guarantee you release more toxic stuff into the air in a few days of normal activity than would be emitted by a few mL of Acetone. (Cleaners used at home/work, filling your car with gasoline, changing your oil, pesticides used in the yard on weeds, spraying insecticides, nail polish and nail polish remover (Also known as Acetone) painting, etc. In the overall scheme of things, it wouldn't be a big deal at all.
we should all be asking more questions about the synthetic chemicals that populate our lives and why we're willing to defend our own acts of toxic pollution.
my apologies.....shelly ranting yet again because she thinks about this sh*t too much.