Otto [abridged]: In the 1920s Big Oil KNEW putting lead in petrol would be lethal. Investors didn't give a frick. In went lead. In 1965 Clair Patterson who worked out the age of the Earth revealed that in the process he'd found a thin layer of lead covered the planet: water; plants; people's skin…
Otto EnglishEveryone turned on him. Even though he could prove that the world was being poisoned and people were dying as a result.. big oil and conservative pundits and politicians went after him. BUT he didn't give up and that us why we have unleaded petrol and boy... does history repeat itself