and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal
I know this part is likely referring to the plastic itself, but due to the headline summary, it sounds like a super industrial, dystopic way of describing human birth and death.
The actual solution to the Fermi Paradox, artifical polymerization.
Oh well, add it to the pile.
We’re all forty plus years into the great atomization project and we no longer have any ability to tackle even minor systemic issues. There’s no way in our current state we’re removing plastic from even newly manufactured items.
Absolutely disgusting:
Being surrounded and yelled at about “misrepresenting reality” is not how serious United Nations-hosted negotiations are meant to proceed. But that is what happened to Prof Bethanie Carney Almroth during talks about a global treaty to slash plastic pollution in Ottawa, Canada. The employees of a large US chemicals company “formed a ring” around her, she says.
At another event in Ottawa, Carney Almroth was “harassed and intimidated” by a plastic packaging representative, who barged into the room and shouted that she was fearmongering and pushing misinformation. That meeting was an official event organised by the UN. “So I filed the harassment reports with the UN,” said Carney Almroth. “The guy had to apologise, and then he left the meeting. He was at the next meeting.”
Wondering the negative effects will be as bad as leaded gasoline?
Possibly worse, we got rid of lead gasoline, there’s no getting rid of plastics
I’m sure the rich will have a treatment for it before too long and the rest of us will just suck it up
Fun fact: it’s not the plastics itself thats usually the problem, but rather the solvents and conditioning agents used to characterize the plastic during manufacture
I know what you were getting at, but just pointing out lead gasoline still exists today, primarily in small aircraft.
You know. I’ve fucking had it with this lemmy pedantry.
I have been ‘Buuut AckTChsuallly’'d in nearly every post I’ve made in the last three weeks and I’m fucking done. Between that and the mod harassment, the fascist bots, lincucks, tankies, proud non-Harris-voters and unasked-for hardcore bestiality I’ve fucking had enough of this rapidly igniting toxic waste dump of a reddit clone
You are ALL horrible, twisted, ignorant people with entirely too much arrogance for your mediocre engagement levels.
Every fucking community that shows up on my feed but /autism and the one I mod is getting blocked BECAUSE I WILL NOT HAVE YOU ASSHOLES CHASE ME FROM MY LAST PLACE
Eat every form of shit and let it make you a better person by absorption.
As a lincuck who isn’t secretly into horse fucking, I’d be lying if I said I refuse to get off my high horse.
well you sure are angry aren’t you.
Lol It’s so beyond I thought they were doing a copy pasta. I was waiting for the gotcha at the end only it didn’t arrive. I couldn’t imagine living in that head.
Lemmy should be capitalized since it’s a proper noun.
if they were that bad we’d know by now.
Agreed. This is hardly a new problem.
Plastics cause much harm to our ecosystems but I’m not sure microplastics are so bad. Plastic is a really broad term, makes it hard to talk about and I’m ignorant on much of the subject. But I understand that most microplastics are biologically inert?
Seems like everyone on lemmy jumps to the conclusion that microplastics are or will have drastic health effects. No, they’re not comparable to lead or asbestos, or, as you said, we’d know, would already have a mountain of evidence.
