What will be the "turns out cigarettes are bad for us" of this generation?

Phibsboro wrote: »

The less obvious one I think is racing animals (horse racing/greyhound racing). If you look at it as though it had never been a thing, the idea that we would get sport out of rearing and training animals to carry us round a track in a race is... barbaric? A coming generation will be as appalled as we are now when we look back at animal circuses or, going further back, bear baiting as entertainment.

I think racing horses esp. has too much money wrapped up in it with breeding, events and betting to be threatened in any way. Think dog racing may be on the decline...here at any rate. Hare coursing was huge here years ago, now it's kind of a niche thing that only shows up on the pages of local newspapers.

Circuses were moving with public tastes and legislation. The traditional circus is up against a lot of competition from other forms of entertainment and may be a thing of the past soon.
Zoos or wildlife parks may have a role in safeguarding animals whose habitats are threatened or simply gone.

Grayson wrote: »

maybe they're the same but you lost your hearing.

I sit at the soundboard for quite a few shows as well. Almost all clubs/venues have restrictions on the decibel levels that they allow. I haven't been to too many shows that have exceeded over 100db in the past 20 years (there have been a few exceptions.

I have had my hearing checked a few times in the last ten years. There is some hearing loss, but it is consistent with my age.

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Sunscreen

You mean being bad for you? Or bad that we're not using it? Because if it's the first one, I've never heard this conspiracy

People still aren't taking warnings about skin cancer seriously, it's already the most common form of cancer in Ireland and people still think it's hilarious and "so Irish" to go around like lobsters. Sun damage is caused by uv rays which are present every day, 365 days of the year, even when it's not "sunny".

Plastic, there's still too much being used, far far too much, and the vast majority of organisations don't care about reducing their use. I also think that poor water quality in a lot of areas of Ireland causes people to rely heavily on bottled water, which also isn't helping the plastic problem. I read recently that there is a water refill scheme being rolled out in Ireland whereby you can refill your water bottles either for free or for a small fee. The government need to go one step further and introduce plastic bottle recycling facilities. They have them in Europe and they're very successful.

Obesity still isn't being taken seriously enough and if you think the "obesity epidemic" is bad now, imagine what it will be like in 50 years. People still don't understand enough about nutrition, food, what their body needs, drinking water, sleep hygiene etc. There is so many educational resources now but people continue to choose what's convenient over what's healthy.

the beer revolu wrote: »

That's what I was going to post.
Using it.
I've never heard a theory about it but it wouldn't surprise me if in years to come people will marvel at the fact we used to even put that **** on children!

Ps, I use sunblock but I can't help wondering if it is poisonous.

I don't know. I would rather be using sun cream than getting skin cancer and watching my nose fall off.

Gwen Cooper wrote: »

I don't know. I would rather be using sun cream than getting skin cancer and watching my nose fall off.

I added, that I do use it.
I just can't help wondering about it.

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Most music made in the last ten or fifteen years is capable of doing serious hearing damage. I don't mean this in an old fogey complaining about modern music way. This is happening to all music. Record companies assume music is going to be listened to by a teenager on a phone through shitty earphones so they mix the music to have more 'punch'. They compress everything and remove all the dynamics so everything is just constantly loud.

I ripped my copies of the original Nevermind CD and a 2011 reissue to demonstrate. Nirvana were always loud but this is something else. The top picture is Smells Like Teen Spirit from the original CD and the bottom is from 2011.

While compressing music like that might well ruin it due to lack of dynamics, there would be less peaks to damage hearing.
Listening level is determined by the listener, not the mastering.

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

It's constant noise in your ear with no let up. It's especially excruciating if you listen through headphones. I've listened to that CD only once because it wreaked havoc with my head.

I would have thought that that may cause fatigue but that it's the peaks that cause hearing damage.
I could be wrong.

irishproduce wrote: »

That is a big one. I'd go with this.
Children being farmed out to institutional care facilities while their mother goes off to work all day = not good and I think although it will be difficult to discuss it in the future, generally even when unpalatable, it will come out.

I think women who choose to stay home and mind/ educate/ rear their children should hold their heads high. It is a good decision.

This keads into what an earlier poster said and capitalism, well late stage capitalism like we are in now,they are linked,people,well most people cant afford to only have one income coning into a household now,it has destroyed the social structure of family as we know it, there will be a huge look back going how did that happen

Medical advances that keep people alive, who would otherwise not survive, are great at an individual level. I would be the first to avail of anything that's going. But ultimately this will lead to the extinction of the human race because it it contravenes the first rule of evolution, (the survival of the fittest). If we stop evolving, we will die out in the long run.