@quixoticgeek@social.v.st @unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz @JoBlakely@mastodon.social @afewbugs@social.coop traditional dyes could have some pretty unpleasant environmental consequences back when they were the only game in town too. My hope is that, if we manage to shift to a non digging stuff out of the ground and setting fire to it based economy and renewable energy becomes more abundant, we’ll be able to spend some of that abundance cleaning up after ourselves.