Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials

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• pleasestopasking@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We don’t know about the longer term consequences yet, just like we didn’t about lead.

  Not saying it’s a definite but I wouldn’t be surprised.

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No, people knew lead was poisonous even back near Roman days. Though just like how humans constantly do stupid things for some benefit, they kept using it as a sweetener for ages.

    Also mercury in relation to, “as mad as a hatter”. It’s just mercury was very good for the job.

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    • CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      To play devil’s advocate, we always knew lead was toxic, but we didn’t know the only healthy dose was 0

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    • defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, but plastic is a very new invention and a lot less studied than something like Pb or Hg, which are natural elements.

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      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Nautal in no way what so ever should imply more healthy.

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Plastic has been around for 80 years. Shouldn’t we know something by now

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    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If it was going to be as bad as fearmongers want it to be, absolutely.

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  • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But we know plastic is inert

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    • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      plastic is inert

      wat? In no way is it inert.

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• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We are just beginning to understand how much the chemical Imbalances that lead to depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders originate in the digestive tract and how microplastics from food may disrupt the processing of these chemicals.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t think the impacts of microplastics are quite as catastrophic, they can’t be or we would already know.

  Which isn’t to say they aren’t bad just damn lead is realllly bad.

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  • piecat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The concentration of them is rising exponentially, that’s the part that terrifies me.

    It’s possible we just haven’t crossed a threshold yet.

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• Carvex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My non-professional guess is that they will eventually sterilize us by disrupting our sperm’s ability to function properly.

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  • bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maybe kids will need to be carefully sheltered from plastics until they are old enough to freeze their sperm.

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      this reads like the next step is to force them to freeze theirs

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      • bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        No, this will likely just be for the rich.

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  • makyo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’ll end up blocking vital neurotransmitters leaving us zombified and giving us an insatiable craving for brains

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  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    'Twould be sweet irony and a blessing for the earth.

    Although the best method for removing it I’ve found is donating plasma (PFAs down 30% in 6 months of regular donation, the hope is nanoplastics are also removed…) so it might be the poors (in USA) and generous that get to have kids, so that’s nice…

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