<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>agtech_andy</author><text>What will become clear over the next 5 years is the extent to which the worldwide environment is polluted with PFAS.&lt;p&gt;Given how much PFAS has been found in remote corners of the world, I think it is safe to assume that most of the world has been touched by PFAS. Everywhere humans try to find PFAS, we find it. The reason we hear about it so often now is that we are checking for it everywhere. And like the article describes, there are new PFAS being discovered all the time.&lt;p&gt;This is a generational issue.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New PFAS discovered with novel testing method</title><url>https://research.unc.edu/2023/12/12/carolina-chemists-discover-eight-new-pfas-with-novel-testing-method/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kacy</author><text>I grew up in a poor town that sourced water from the Cape Fear river. There were two major factories in our immediate area: one that made paper and the other made industrial chemicals. The Dupont plant mentioned in the article was 10 miles upstream from where we were. We knew it was better to buy bottled water than to drink what came through the pipes. Grateful for the scientists and journalists for their work exposing all of this.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New PFAS discovered with novel testing method</title><url>https://research.unc.edu/2023/12/12/carolina-chemists-discover-eight-new-pfas-with-novel-testing-method/</url></story>