Comment by lm28469
Things we had hundreds millions of years to evolve with and adapt too... now we have brake pad dust and haribo strawberry flavored candles
Things we had hundreds millions of years to evolve with and adapt too... now we have brake pad dust and haribo strawberry flavored candles
There weren't many North American conifers on the African savannah when humans were evolving, and our ancestors' reproductive success was not generally affected by air quality. We haven't evolved immunity to things like volcanic gasses which have been around forever. Many plants deliberately evolved to produce toxins. A few of these we find delicious specifically because we did not co-evolve with those plants. Natural = safe is a bad heuristic.
I'm pretty allergic to all those things so I'm going to disagree with your implied preference and take the haribo and brake pad dust all day.