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Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
I actually think the acid is more scary than microplastics. The plastic isn’t gonna burn.
Comment on We got rid of acid rain. Now something scarier is falling from the sky.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
I actually think the acid is more scary than microplastics. The plastic isn’t gonna burn.
Flagstaff@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
PFAS ≠ microplastics! PFAS is way worse and can clog up your body for the duration of its lifespan, hence “forever chemicals”…
MBech@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
You seem to know more about this than I do, so what’s the damage? Like, it stays in the body, which is all I’ve heard multiple times, but is that it? Like it just stays there and nothing happens? Does it cause cancer or organ failure?
'cause if it doesn’t actually do any damage, then sure, it sucks that we’re poluting everything, but it wouldn’t really be the worst type of polution we’re currently ignoring.
xep@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
They are, at the very least, endocrine disrupters: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7926449/
Also see: www.endocrine.org/topics/edc/…/pfas
Flagstaff@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
- Microplastics and our health: What the science says
- Microplastics Everywhere | Harvard Health Magazine
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Flagstaff@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Yes, that’s the second half of the quoted portion. What about the first? The point is that it’s all bad and not any better than acid rain.