What do dental floss, radium poisoning, and the Green New Deal have in common?

Too much, unfortunately.

This past week I watched the new Netflix film, Radium Girls. Radium Girls were the young women who painted luminous watch faces with radium paint and were taught by their supervisors to shape the brushes with their lips to keep their work precise. Of course, they got radium poisoning, their bones (where radium concentrates) turning cancerous or crumbling in their bodies — including pieces of their jaws literally falling out.