And guess who will deny this, call it “fake news,” and fight to give MORE power to plastic polluters? Can ya guess?
The body is temple heretics
Will it be the Children of Men?
Don’t forget everyone… It’s not the manufacturers fault, it’s YOURS for not recycling properly and not reusing your packaging that comes with every purchase!
Maybe if you weren’t taking an extra five minutes in the shower, we wouldn’t have so much plastic in our organs!
Fr?
No, it’s a tactics used by the oil industry to shift the blame to the consumer.
Got it.
Plastic clothes (polyesther) are basically inescapable now as well, and a huge source of microplastics.
It was really depressing when I found that Pendleton, literally THE wool store, is mostly dealing in poly-wool blends now. That completely defeats the purpose of the wool?? A breathable fabric that stays warm when wet for winter, but can also keep you cool in summer? Yeah, let’s just shove some plastic in there. Fucking capitalist brain-rot of these companies, man.
EDIT: I wanted to chime back in and correct myself. Good news everyone, Pendleton’s clothes seem to be mostly all either wool or cotton again! I don’t know what was going on when I looked like a year ago, but they seem to have fixed their fuckery. I’ve never been happier to be wrong.
/s was needed apparently
People have batshit opinions and aren’t ashamed of them anymore. You can’t be sure nowadays.
I tried to write the most biased scaremongering paper about microplastics for a college course and I couldn’t find much directly linking human health to microplastics that was peer reviewed.
The main paper in this article, the one claiming its human brain samples are 0.5% plastic, is preprint - not peer reviewed. So, reporting on it like this is unethical tbh.
Truthfully, scientists have been looking for this sort of link in animals, and they can’t find earthshaking evidence of it. Most of the papers I found showed weak evidence of harm to animals. Most of the scarier papers have to do with how these plastics absorb chemical pollution in sea water, fish then eat the particles and are harmed. These papers point out they have trouble separating general harm from pollution from harm from microplastics pollution.
Microplastics don’t seem to go up the food chain either, seems most plastics people eat are introduced through processing it. So, stop eating processed food. Stop wearing polyester while you’re at it, a lot of microplastics come from laundry.
I’m not saying microplastics aren’t bad for human health. It’s just incredibly hard to study and it’s definitely not as bad as lead or asbestos. If it was, scientists would have found that link already.
The worst news I ran across was that there is no human control group for this stuff. Everyone is full of microplastics. Those are the only peer reviewed human studies this article mentions - the sort that are like “Of samples from 20 different people, they were all full of plastics! We need grant money for more study”.
I hope they get that grant money.
Inb4 we’re hunting uncontacted tribespeople to collect unpolluted samples, and they are also polluted.
Its in the rain so it wouldn’t surprise me at all
Weird idea, but is there anyone we know of from very early in the space race who died in space and is still up there in a capsule or something like that?
They might not be completely free of micro plastics but it might give us something to compare ourselves against at least (IE how much micro plastic is in someone from say 1962 compared to now).
I think our best bet is old green boots on Mount Everest, frozen in time.
Wow, a genuine, high quality post from lemmy.ml instead of the usual authoritarian propaganda.
Hail satan, death to capitalism and American imperialism
Wow, a calamity of epic proportions, who could’ve predicted it? /s
But for real, plastic manufacturers have a lot to answer for.
Yes, oil and it’s byproducts are indeed a blight on the world. At least the way we use them, anyway.
Oh come on, micro plastics are organic compounds how bad can they really be? I mean essentially they are made from dinosaurs, and dinosaurs are cool right? Plus, thing of all the cool things you can do being more flexible! Not to mention, society is far too reliant on them for you to cut our profits enough to really care about the consequences! Besides, there’s no known way to remove them from your body, so might as well enjoy it while we have it! (/s)
And the reward for the doofiest character design goes to…
And one of the most powerful characters in the DCU, godlike power and immortality. He was Luffy long before Luffy was a thing.
That sure sounds like some PEOPLE PROBLEMS!!!
Eh? Eh? I did the thing!
😏👉👉
If plastic were so dangerous, would God have created it and put it everywhere? Literally our bottled water comes in it!? It’s even in our organs! Typical alarmist bullshit.
A disaster of insane proportions and the thing being done is saying it’s scary. God I am tired peeps.
Gonna make being cremated smell different.
Ooh. Cremation is gonna get more expensive if they have to put pollution filters on the chimneys due to all the burning plastic.
Eventually it’ll be like cremating people from that Bodies exhibit. The one where they have bodies that have been injected with some kind of resin to preserve them for anatomy study.
just a planet full of mannequins
You mean Body Worlds. And they’re not injected with resin, all liquid in their bodies is exchanged, turning the bodies literally into plastic.
When I was a kid and saw it(I’m old) it was called “bodies” or “the bodies exhibit.” Didn’t know they changed names since then, or if it was even a thing still tbh.
I also knew them by the name Bodies like 10 years ago. I think “Body Worlds” is a different company now.
(Not sure what happened to the old one, or if I’m even right on this. Should have done wikipedia research but don’t wanna fall into another rabbit hole :))
I believe that they went to …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodies:_The_Exhibition
is what they are referring to here.
https://www.npr.org/2006/08/11/5637687/origins-of-exhibited-cadavers-questioned
https://www.thestranger.com/blogs/2009/09/29/2353961/return-of-the-corpses
et cetera
It keeps my joints nice and slippery
It’s how we know we’re getting enough Vitamin P in our diets.
