Dr Shane Bergin

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Today with David McCullagh · A Beginner’s Guide to Chemicals · 10 Sep 2026 podcast

Me, the birds and the bees instead.

And so these things persist.

We can see them in snow and ice records in the Antarctic, where we see this kind of accumulation of the Earth's chemicals that are in the atmosphere building up over time.

So to dig an ice core in the Antarctic, you not only see the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, you also see what sorts of chemicals were persisting at various times.

We see the industrial age at the moment.

moment.

If you go way back in time deeper into the ice core, you can see that the Romans were using various chemicals back in the day and that still persists.

So these things are sticking around.

I think the important thing to say is we should be cautious with them.

But we shouldn't just say, I want everything chemical free, 'cause that's kind of to go too far.

Yeah.

We should recognise that we we need balance here, we need good governance and we need good public education around what these things are.

And how people can inform themselves.

think a lot of the labelling comes down to compliance and doesn't necessarily come uh think that much about education or informing people, right?

Imagine if RT were to take that approach when it came to delivering the news.

Just came out and you you literally read everything that was said in the Eractus that day with no degree of trying to help people to make sense of it.

I think labelling on on uh with with chemicals is doing just that and it's up to people like me and other

authors and perhaps those that are selling products to take a more active role in helping people to understand and for companies and various organizations that work with chemicals to demonstrate their trustworthiness uh to show that the labelling is there in the public interest and explain how.

I do, I have a ton of them, right.

Uh so uh Geosmin is is a great one for this time of year.

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