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

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• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Microplastics cause neurological damage and anti social violent behavior?

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  • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • Carvex@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    • makyo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • pleasestopasking@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But we know plastic is inert

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    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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