Flame Retardants | Fatal Conveniences™
SuperLife with Darin Olien
Darin Olien
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
House fires are terrifying. Believe me, I know. So trying to protect our home and family from fires seems entirely understandable.
5-10% of the total weight of your living room couch is made up of chemical flame retardants. However, chemical flame retardants are toxic to our health and don't even offer the protection they claim. What is going on, guys?!
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| 0:00.0 | It's that time of the week for another fatal convenience. |
| 0:06.0 | This is a bite-sized segment that addresses some of society's fatal |
| 0:10.5 | conveniences and the steps you can take to avoid becoming a victim of them. |
| 0:16.1 | I define fatal conveniences as the things we may be doing because the world we live in |
| 0:26.2 | makes us believe we have to. Tap water, shampoo, sunglasses, food. |
| 0:29.0 | I dive into the hidden truths behind some of our everyday choices that could not only be harming us, but even |
| 0:37.2 | killing us. |
| 0:38.8 | So let's dive in. |
| 0:39.7 | Hey everybody, welcome to the show another installment of fatal |
| 0:46.1 | conveniences these are things that are disrupting your life that you don't |
| 0:51.4 | necessarily know is even there. |
| 0:55.0 | And the convenience is we just gotten used to these things in our lives, |
| 0:59.8 | and slowly they are harming us. |
| 1:02.8 | So this one is a very, very powerful one. |
| 1:07.5 | This one is something that, as I dug into it, |
| 1:11.4 | the collusion that's there in the chemical industry really was surprising and I'll get into that a little bit. |
| 1:17.8 | But this one is flame retardants that are in most of our furniture, especially couches and mattresses and |
| 1:26.2 | children's car seats and all of this stuff very dangerous and it's not so funny of how this stuff actually happens. |
| 1:37.0 | So here's a little introduction. |
| 1:39.0 | So flame retardants are chemicals that are used supposedly in commercial and |
| 1:44.3 | consumer products such as furniture electronics and building |
| 1:48.6 | insulation keep in mind that is a very powerful one. If you're surrounded in building |
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