Microplastics Found In Human Hearts For First Time, Showing Impact Of Pollution::A study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology for found microplastics in the hearts and blood of humans undergoing cardiac surgery.
One of the possible answers astrophysicists give for why we haven’t seen more evidence of intelligent life in the universe, is that there are technological milestones that lead to doomsday scenarios. They’re “great filters” that many advanced civilizations don’t survive. The classic example is nuclear fission and the power it gives to destroy. I’m convinced that plastic is one of these filters.
I’d figure those plastics wreak havoc in the long term in an individual life but won’t prevent people form reproducing and developing. It might be a serious setback but just a hurdle for humanity. Climate change, our nuclear arsenal, … pose more urgent threats.
Yeah lead does all of this stuff too and we made it past the Romans using it as a sweetener…
Did you mean sweetener?
Or did they spin it into threads?
Sweetener… Darn phones lol
Pretty sure plastics save more.lives than they destroy. Modern medicine isn’t nearly as effective without them.
Not necessarily the creation of plastic–I agree that it’s very beneficial–but the management of plastic. As we’re seeing now, plastic can be very destructive to life when it’s used and disposed of irresponsibly. The filter in this case is being able to use plastic for its good without letting its harmful aspects get out of control.
If they end up destroying the whole species?
Curious why you’ve got two emojis in your username?
It’s an ever aging reference to The Good Place
DEREK!
I’m enjoying a treat Derrick!
We started mass production of plastic 90 years ago, and we’re choking on it. We need to stop all plastic production.
The sheer amount of plastic that goes in the trash any time I take a trip to the grocery story is maddening. And I’m someone who is conscious about it and try to buy products with less plastic waste! Like, what is the point of all this? Is waxed paper not good enough?
I did read some argument that for certain foods, if they removed the plastic wrapping, the expiration would happen so much faster that food waste would increase by a lot. I honestly have no idea if waxed paper would work as well though.
I do agree that hopefully alternative solutions can be found in any case…
I doubt waxed paper would be a blanket solution for everything. Hot dogs come to mind as an example of something that may require plastic (meats in general, but that a whole other issue). But even something like cheese should do fine in sealed waxed paper.
But more obviously, bread and other baked goods, candy, chips, pretty much anything where perishability isn’t a major concern can use waxed paper or cardboard for packaging. Sodas, water, milk, and juice could come in glass, aluminum, or even cardboard cartons instead of plastic bottles. Produce that comes in plastic could use paper, waxed paper, or those little cardboard cartons.
There are plenty of alternatives but our corporate masters would have to sacrifice a small percentage of their quarterly profits so instead we will piss where we sleep until we die.
The sheer amount of plastic that goes in the trash any time I take a trip to the grocery story
Do people not recycle plastics in your country?
If you think ‘recycling’ plastic does a damn thing, you need to do some reading. It’s a sham for corporations to trick you into thinking your plastic waste gets reused. It doesn’t.
The problem is that many medical devices for the disabled and chronically ill are made of plastic. It’s why the disability community protested the plastic straw ban, since many of them require to use them to consume anything.
Yeah sure why the fuck not. Toss it on the pile of everything thats fucking wrong.
Hey friend, don’t let yourself become doomer. There’s good news out there, too.
I’ll decompose into a pile of bones and a little mound of plastic dust.
Materialism in the hearts of men
