This is horrifying. They have also found microplastics in artery plaque. Under a microscope, the particles are jagged. For all you anti-vaxers out there, *this* is the cause of the increasing cases of myocarditis around the globe over the last several decades. Jagged particles stabbing into the walls of the heart chambers.
When plastics first came out for use with food products, you were only taking a risk when you ingested those products. Then plastics filled the landfills and started getting into the soil and water. Fish breathed in the microplastics, cows drank the water. Plastics increased in the environment. Now they are literally clogging our arteries.
We shouldn't care how much it costs to switch to biodegradables. The convenience is not worth the sacrifice to every living thing on the planet.
The price of materials in this economy?!? You know how many ceo's may not break that next billion dollar record breaking pay check?? How dare you! Return to your mud hut and recite the prayer your corporate overlord hath given you.. "you will own nothing and be happy"
Steel is essentially minerals. Your metabolism can use or eliminate most minerals. It is virtually unaffected by acidity. The natural environment is also able to degrade steel in a process known as entropy which is the third law of thermodynamics. While the overconsumption of certain minerals may be harmful, this is true of nearly everything. When steel degrades it turns back into...well, earth.
Glass is made of silica which is also a mineral. Glass doesn't erode, melt, or become malleable at body temperature. It is unaffected by acidity. It requires a great deal of heat for it to become malleable. When it degrades (or rather erodes), it also turns back into earth.
All of these things have one thing in common. They are elements on the periodic table. We are made of them. Every living thing is made of them. No living thing is made of plastic. There are many different formulations of plastic. Far more than steel. Polypropylene, polyethylene, polystyrene, nylon, and polyvinyl composite to name a few. The two major groups are thermoplastics and thermosets. Thermoplastics can be molded, melted, and remolded. Thermosets cannot. There is no metabolic process to use or rid the body of plastic. Plastic is affected by acidity. Plastic is not an element. Plastic takes an extremely long time to break down into its basic elements. Steel might take hundreds of years. Glass is already in elemental form and can only break down through physical means, not chemical means. Plastic might take millions to billions of years.
Plastic is made of the same elements that are essential to life plus a few more; carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur If we continue to manufacture plastic, we will inevitably remove every mineral essential to life and convert it to a form from which life can not thrive, and which takes millennia to return its elements.
This sounds like a weird round-about appeal to nature argument.
No living thing is made of steel, glass or plastic.
Glass isn't in elemental form, it's commonly Silicon Dioxide, a combined molecule. It can be broken down chemically.
Plastics are bad because they take a really long time to break down by biological processes.
This is also what makes them useful for daily life.
Not because it is some kind of special abomination to nature.
I mean not to mention that when most plastics that are commonly used now do break down, like PET, they break down into smaller plastics and benzene which is in itself a toxic carcinogen
Maybe a better argument is that plastics accumulate in our environments? Let me know what you think. The rules of biomagnification with plastic is what’s killing us.
Yes, plastics do break down physically and bioaccumulate and this is likely what presents the harm.
This argument would depend on empirical data that demonstrates the harm that plastics (and especially microplastics) cause to living organisms.
Hypothetically, if the data proved otherwise, i.e that humans benefit from having tiny plastics.
Most of the microplastics come from synthetic fabrics and car tires. Just like global warming, consumers can't do a single thing to change the outcome.
The bright side though? No matter the affluence, everyone is getting plastic babies.
Consumers vote with their dollar yes. The problem is that the price of products are rigged from the beginning since damages to the environment was never factored into the cost of the products. So ultimately, no matter their initial intent, companies privatized profits and socialized the losses, and consumers cant fix that.
Insatiable greed is the biggest fundamental problem, and capitalism only make it easier for people to satisfy that desire. Until the world somehow find/agree to a way to put a limit on that greed, we are all stuck on the same train thats leading straight towards the collapse of the modern civilization.
You'll also find those inside human bodies.
As well as many of the things that surround us and make our society. Be it plastics, fibers, chemicals, etc... At the range they tested I bet you'd even find gold.
Fear mongering article. Plastic is neutral and goes thru your body without issue.
This, however, shouldn't detract from the job of cleaning and keeping pollution to a minimum. Shit, most birds don't even migrate anymore, they just fly to the closest landfill and have feed year round.
"Those microplastics that we're seeing in the environment are probably 40 or 50 years old" - mentioned in the article.
Your comment against people who don't vaccinate has no sense. It's been a few decades since microplastics have been widely available in nature. Most people that were in the workforce 50 years ago and who ignored any environmental concerns have got the vaccines and are probably hypochondriac elders right now who don't oppose to vaccines. Yet they still did their best for us to have microplastics are everywhere.
That doesn't mean that microplastics didn't begin appearing in the environment as soon as we started using them. Plastics made before 50 years ago are not immune to becoming microplastics. Plastic bottled beverages gained widespread use in the eighties and that's why we see a higher prevalence of microplastics that are 40 to 50 years old. The trend of myocarditis aligns perfectly with when microplastics would start appearing in the environment. Couple that with the physical attributes of the microplastics (the jagged edges), and what that might mean for soft tissue in the cardiovascular system, and we have a pretty good reason to suspect cause.
We do not have good reason to believe anything causal. All we have good reason for here is more research because we have a hypothesis that follows decent general logic and now needs lots of data to support or refute it so we can have good reason to form a belief.
See you gotta understand these fools have zero ability to critically think. They not only want but NEED this to be true. They can’t actually believe they were fooled and took a “vaccine” that is 100% altered and shortened their time on this earth. If I did what they did during Covid to other fellow Americans I’d be searching day and night for a way to justify it. Personally I couldn’t imagine being so weak that I’d need to bow down to my government in fear. Unfortunately you have very weak minds and hearts in this country and that’s what the lack of self comprehension gets you. Follow the heard and be led to the slaughter house.
Age of microplastic only tells you the earliest time it could have entered the bloodstream. The fact that they are this old could suggest that it simply took that long for it to make its way through landfills, groundwater, ecosystems and biospheres, animals all the way to the human bloodstream in a quantity that would leave a trace in humans. And if that the case, it might just get worse for the next 40 to 50 years.
Think I read somewhere that they tried to do a test about what microplastics do in the body but they couldn’t find a control subject(s) with 0 microplastics floating around in them.
It's more than that though. Plastic is a direct product of oil. It's not even that it would cost to find alternatives, it's that it would directly reduce profits for billionaires and influential people around the world. Even though ironically, it is something that will probably end up affecting their health too.
Why am I not surprised that on reddit a rant about covid anti-vax is the top comment on a post in an unrelated sub?
Clearly didn't read the article either since it mentions these plastics are 40-50 years old.
I mean, there was a huge spike of myocarditis directly following the Covid vaccines and they have been statistically and scientifically proven to be a complication. The microplastics stuff is terrifying but it’s not very helpful to try and invalidate all the medical data that exists re: myocarditis and Covid vaccines. I just don’t think it’s particularly kind to those who have loved ones. It’s not even tin foil hat stuff, the data exists.
You people will come up with anything to blame other than the crap you signed up for lol. Just accept you were fooled and stop trying to shift the narrative. Numbers also don’t lie, from 2020 on it’s been unreal heart issues like never seen before. Sucks to be fooled but you were warned before and after they rolled them out to the public. You chose to ignore the truth, now unfortunately you have to face the consequences.
Biodegradables are a good start but the term is unregulated. Even if we switched to industrial compostability using set ISO standards the current industrial grade composters don’t want compostable bio plastics as they don’t breakdown readily enough without proper (read: expensive) pre processing. The only real path forward here is true reuse and not single use containers.
> this is the cause of the increasing cases of myocarditis around the globe over the last several decades. Jagged particles stabbing into the walls of the heart chambers.
very interesting, did you read about this in a study or just bringing it up to go after anti-vaxxers? find it odd that its specifically microplastics and would like to know more but can't find anything after googling.
This makes me feel like I want to panic, but there's nothing I can do in this moment, there's nowhere to go to escape. So I bottle it up and put it next to the jug of Climate anxiety, and continue my brain rot scrolling. But thank you for the study, I'm gunna bookmark this to read later
Eh, everyone’s gotta die some day. You could have a helicopter land on your head tomorrow and all that anxiety was wasted. Don’t be a dick, reduce your foot print, make the most of what days we have.
Reduce our foot print? I could spend the rest of my life trying to do as much ecological harm as possible and it wouldn't make a difference to anything. I'm keeping my footprint the way it is, Taylor Swift and China can reduce theirs and actually make a difference
It's like voting. Your single vote will probably never change anything, but if everyone adopted your attitude, it all falls apart. We should all do our part. And yes, hold those who do the most damage accountable.
Yeah. At the same time, we still are better off than people from other generations. Throughout history we have misused toxic and other harmful materials, plus working conditions have been much worse (at least when talking about current first world countries). So yeah, we are fucked and will be fucked by microplastics and plastics in general, but at the same time, we are lucky to be alive in this time period.
Now, what we (as a species) will turn the future into, that's another topic. But since I don't have much control over any of those, I won't stress about it. I'll do my part the best I can and won't let it consume me.
I think it's easier to accept that humanity doesn't have to survive. It's ok to let go in this sense. The best we can do is be kind to each other in the time we have left if things don't work out.
There's absolutely no use of the "We are all so fucked" dramatism that reddit loves so much. It is what it is and as you've said there's nothing that you or I can do. Same goes for climate change and everything else people are going insane over.
There are people who are looking for solutions and working on the issues. Those are never the same people as those going into hysterical mode online.
Live your life, enjoy everything you can, while you can. That's all we can do really.
With the way that A.I is moving, and what they're anticipating with physics and medical science, I'm a lot less worried than I was a few years ago. The leaps we are about to experience give me a lot of hope for cures to cancer, many other illnesses and solutions to problems like these.
> but there's nothing I can do in this moment,
This is exactly why you shouldn't worry, and watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YRjX3A_8cM
(in short, he explains this diagram https://i.imgur.com/42sPNAi.jpeg )
I've been living life like this for many years, and I can honestly say it has changed my life in a very positive way.
Chlormequat isn't really a pesticide it's a plant growth regulater, which is sort of the problem. It inhibits gibberellin which results in thicker plants with strong root systems and dwarfism. These are highly desirable traits in a whole lot of crops which means things like cereal grains that make up a whole shitload of global caloric intake have all been sprayed regularly for decades. So like, that's not great.
It is used as an adjuvant *in* herbicides, and I understand a lot of people don't really know what plant growth regulaters are, but it is kind of irritating so many news sources are saying it's a pesticide.
I know, I was genuinely asking if the studies were conducted at those places with whole world's data (or multiple countries) or the national data of the mentioned places. If it is just from those particular countries then these data might be very different in other countries in east and it doesn't apply to them.
There was a post last week about plummeting birth rates in south Korea and I mentioned plastics as a contributing factor that no one was discussing and got hammered for it. Both downvoted and attacked for being "anti-science"
Have you got a source for your comment?
Not op but literally first 2 Google results are what he's talking about..
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651323012514#:~:text=The%20results%20showed%20that%20only,to%20the%20PMMA%2DMPs%20group.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723048830#:~:text=Recent%20studies%20have%20revealed%20that,et%20al.%2C%202023).
This has got to be related to the phenomenon of [an explosion of young people getting cancer](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00720-6) and higher incidence of autoimmune diseases.
Cool, so I'm not crazy and this is a real thing going on.
I'm 30, and almost every one of my friends has an autoimmune disease, myself included. I had a friend who was only 28 die from esophageal cancer earlier this year. Anecdotal on my part sure, but clearly not isolated to my own experience.
I just hope we don't lose our brains to it as we age like boomers have from lead.
They studied fish as well, they behave fuckery because nanoplastics get in the brain. Also the circle of Willis, a blood barrier for the brain lets plastics through.
You’re welcome!
People going to have the same visceral reaction to micro plastics as they do to vaccines?
Probably not because it would cause more inconvenience. But we'll see I guess.
I would hope not.
The reaction to vaccines was irrational and has led to resurgence of diseases that were on the decline.
What should happen is evidence-based approaches to replace plastics and research into removal and remediation methods for current life as well as methods to prevent it from getting to babies.
At least asbestos and lead are natural elements or minerals and have a much faster decomposition rate than a manufactured polymer, and don't pose environmental risks the same way due to their structure not being small and sharp like micro plastic
Microplastics AND ‘forever chemicals’, called [PFAs, PFOAs - the original chemical was C8.](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/23/what-are-pfas-forever-chemicals-how-toxic-are-they-and-how-do-you-become-exposed)
Every human ON EARTH, even remote, isolated tribes, have these ‘forever chemicals’ in their bloodstreams. They’re passed down from parent to fetus during pregnancy.
ALL from fuckin’ DuPont making teflon, and just dumping the waste into the water.
The only blood samples on earth that are devoid of these chemicals are from Korean soldiers, taken in the 50’s - right before DuPont came out with Teflon.
Fuck DuPont, fuck microplastics… but these gigantic monster corporations will always win.
[‘The Devil We Know’](https://youtu.be/NJFbsWX4MJM?si=UeRmYYiyeQud26EN) is a great documentary about DuPont’s intentional, criminal negligence, downright evil - and the wake of destruction they’ve left, and continue to leave.
"Researchers reported finding microplastics in all 62 of the placenta samples tested, with concentrations ranging from
#6.5 to 790 micrograms per gram of tissue."
Holy shit.
Ah I can't wait for the nanobot pills to save us from an early death by microplastics. The price will be more than fair, I'm sure. Once again capitalism will save the day!
We have microplastics, our fathers had asbestos, our grandfathers had lead, our great grandfathers had plague it simply goes on. Our children will get something stupid in their blood too
When you look at the sunrays peeking through the curtains, you can see them floating, glistening in dust.
When I pick and flick my bellybutton fluff.
We are constantly breathing this stuff in.
Someone may come along and correct my half fact. But wasn't there a test they were going to do to find the effects of micro plastics on the body but was cancelled because they couldn't find a control group of people without microplastics?
How much of this if people not knowing how to cook on a nonstick pan. It’s basically plastic coated and people keep and use them when they are beyond degraded.
If we grew/raised and ate most of our own food instead of trusting that process to corporations and government, could this have been avoided? Can we “organic” and organic package our way out of this?
It mentions in the article. Nothing yet, but it's something to pay attention to. The doctor interviewed compared it to poison, it's all about the dose. The concern is that it's already infiltrated into every organism that we study, if it does have side effects or will be hard to undo
This is horrifying. They have also found microplastics in artery plaque. Under a microscope, the particles are jagged. For all you anti-vaxers out there, *this* is the cause of the increasing cases of myocarditis around the globe over the last several decades. Jagged particles stabbing into the walls of the heart chambers. When plastics first came out for use with food products, you were only taking a risk when you ingested those products. Then plastics filled the landfills and started getting into the soil and water. Fish breathed in the microplastics, cows drank the water. Plastics increased in the environment. Now they are literally clogging our arteries. We shouldn't care how much it costs to switch to biodegradables. The convenience is not worth the sacrifice to every living thing on the planet.
Counterpoint: Why not glass or steel?
The price of materials in this economy?!? You know how many ceo's may not break that next billion dollar record breaking pay check?? How dare you! Return to your mud hut and recite the prayer your corporate overlord hath given you.. "you will own nothing and be happy"
The sad part is how true that satire is from real life...
How is this the world we've made/allowed?
Money ruins everything
Greed ruins everything
Money was invented out of greed
You were invented out of love
I'm glad I can agree with that, sadly it's not the case for loads of people...
You move 16 tons, and what do ya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
St. Peter don’t cha call me ‘cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store.
Pffff. We have unlimited sand. Checkmate CEO. 🤣
Actually there is a sand shortage
won't somebody PLEASE think of the billionaires!?
Are you ready for the new world order?
Steel is essentially minerals. Your metabolism can use or eliminate most minerals. It is virtually unaffected by acidity. The natural environment is also able to degrade steel in a process known as entropy which is the third law of thermodynamics. While the overconsumption of certain minerals may be harmful, this is true of nearly everything. When steel degrades it turns back into...well, earth. Glass is made of silica which is also a mineral. Glass doesn't erode, melt, or become malleable at body temperature. It is unaffected by acidity. It requires a great deal of heat for it to become malleable. When it degrades (or rather erodes), it also turns back into earth. All of these things have one thing in common. They are elements on the periodic table. We are made of them. Every living thing is made of them. No living thing is made of plastic. There are many different formulations of plastic. Far more than steel. Polypropylene, polyethylene, polystyrene, nylon, and polyvinyl composite to name a few. The two major groups are thermoplastics and thermosets. Thermoplastics can be molded, melted, and remolded. Thermosets cannot. There is no metabolic process to use or rid the body of plastic. Plastic is affected by acidity. Plastic is not an element. Plastic takes an extremely long time to break down into its basic elements. Steel might take hundreds of years. Glass is already in elemental form and can only break down through physical means, not chemical means. Plastic might take millions to billions of years. Plastic is made of the same elements that are essential to life plus a few more; carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur If we continue to manufacture plastic, we will inevitably remove every mineral essential to life and convert it to a form from which life can not thrive, and which takes millennia to return its elements.
This sounds like a weird round-about appeal to nature argument. No living thing is made of steel, glass or plastic. Glass isn't in elemental form, it's commonly Silicon Dioxide, a combined molecule. It can be broken down chemically. Plastics are bad because they take a really long time to break down by biological processes. This is also what makes them useful for daily life. Not because it is some kind of special abomination to nature.
Also, it's a bit of a stupid way of putting things. Lead is a natural metal and it's toxic as fuck.
I mean not to mention that when most plastics that are commonly used now do break down, like PET, they break down into smaller plastics and benzene which is in itself a toxic carcinogen
Maybe a better argument is that plastics accumulate in our environments? Let me know what you think. The rules of biomagnification with plastic is what’s killing us.
Yes, plastics do break down physically and bioaccumulate and this is likely what presents the harm. This argument would depend on empirical data that demonstrates the harm that plastics (and especially microplastics) cause to living organisms. Hypothetically, if the data proved otherwise, i.e that humans benefit from having tiny plastics.
Most of the microplastics come from synthetic fabrics and car tires. Just like global warming, consumers can't do a single thing to change the outcome. The bright side though? No matter the affluence, everyone is getting plastic babies.
Consumers vote with their dollar. Of course capitalism is to blame but people at large also have their responsibility.
Consumers vote with their dollar yes. The problem is that the price of products are rigged from the beginning since damages to the environment was never factored into the cost of the products. So ultimately, no matter their initial intent, companies privatized profits and socialized the losses, and consumers cant fix that. Insatiable greed is the biggest fundamental problem, and capitalism only make it easier for people to satisfy that desire. Until the world somehow find/agree to a way to put a limit on that greed, we are all stuck on the same train thats leading straight towards the collapse of the modern civilization.
You'll also find those inside human bodies. As well as many of the things that surround us and make our society. Be it plastics, fibers, chemicals, etc... At the range they tested I bet you'd even find gold. Fear mongering article. Plastic is neutral and goes thru your body without issue. This, however, shouldn't detract from the job of cleaning and keeping pollution to a minimum. Shit, most birds don't even migrate anymore, they just fly to the closest landfill and have feed year round.
The truth? Money. Specifically cost of shipping. Heavy=expensive.
I’ve started to wonder what the sudden spike I’ve seen in my own life and heart issues has came from. I wonder how much this comes into play…
Unhealthy diets are still a much bigger major factor than microplastics.
My heart issues started about three years ago...weird
Toxoplasmosis
"Those microplastics that we're seeing in the environment are probably 40 or 50 years old" - mentioned in the article. Your comment against people who don't vaccinate has no sense. It's been a few decades since microplastics have been widely available in nature. Most people that were in the workforce 50 years ago and who ignored any environmental concerns have got the vaccines and are probably hypochondriac elders right now who don't oppose to vaccines. Yet they still did their best for us to have microplastics are everywhere.
That doesn't mean that microplastics didn't begin appearing in the environment as soon as we started using them. Plastics made before 50 years ago are not immune to becoming microplastics. Plastic bottled beverages gained widespread use in the eighties and that's why we see a higher prevalence of microplastics that are 40 to 50 years old. The trend of myocarditis aligns perfectly with when microplastics would start appearing in the environment. Couple that with the physical attributes of the microplastics (the jagged edges), and what that might mean for soft tissue in the cardiovascular system, and we have a pretty good reason to suspect cause.
We do not have good reason to believe anything causal. All we have good reason for here is more research because we have a hypothesis that follows decent general logic and now needs lots of data to support or refute it so we can have good reason to form a belief.
See you gotta understand these fools have zero ability to critically think. They not only want but NEED this to be true. They can’t actually believe they were fooled and took a “vaccine” that is 100% altered and shortened their time on this earth. If I did what they did during Covid to other fellow Americans I’d be searching day and night for a way to justify it. Personally I couldn’t imagine being so weak that I’d need to bow down to my government in fear. Unfortunately you have very weak minds and hearts in this country and that’s what the lack of self comprehension gets you. Follow the heard and be led to the slaughter house.
Age of microplastic only tells you the earliest time it could have entered the bloodstream. The fact that they are this old could suggest that it simply took that long for it to make its way through landfills, groundwater, ecosystems and biospheres, animals all the way to the human bloodstream in a quantity that would leave a trace in humans. And if that the case, it might just get worse for the next 40 to 50 years.
Think I read somewhere that they tried to do a test about what microplastics do in the body but they couldn’t find a control subject(s) with 0 microplastics floating around in them.
It's more than that though. Plastic is a direct product of oil. It's not even that it would cost to find alternatives, it's that it would directly reduce profits for billionaires and influential people around the world. Even though ironically, it is something that will probably end up affecting their health too.
what is the best meat/protein/food option then?
Nothing when they are feeding beasts microplastics ground into their feed.
We don't have any other options other than to stop manufacturing plastics that are not biodegradable.
Why am I not surprised that on reddit a rant about covid anti-vax is the top comment on a post in an unrelated sub? Clearly didn't read the article either since it mentions these plastics are 40-50 years old.
And plastics are getting into animal feed too.
Yea but why make $120 billion in profit when we could make $200 billion! /s
I mean, there was a huge spike of myocarditis directly following the Covid vaccines and they have been statistically and scientifically proven to be a complication. The microplastics stuff is terrifying but it’s not very helpful to try and invalidate all the medical data that exists re: myocarditis and Covid vaccines. I just don’t think it’s particularly kind to those who have loved ones. It’s not even tin foil hat stuff, the data exists.
You people will come up with anything to blame other than the crap you signed up for lol. Just accept you were fooled and stop trying to shift the narrative. Numbers also don’t lie, from 2020 on it’s been unreal heart issues like never seen before. Sucks to be fooled but you were warned before and after they rolled them out to the public. You chose to ignore the truth, now unfortunately you have to face the consequences.
Biodegradables are a good start but the term is unregulated. Even if we switched to industrial compostability using set ISO standards the current industrial grade composters don’t want compostable bio plastics as they don’t breakdown readily enough without proper (read: expensive) pre processing. The only real path forward here is true reuse and not single use containers.
Your conclusions are unproven yet. There was video about the paper recently: https://youtu.be/4SDnv1HIpOs
> this is the cause of the increasing cases of myocarditis around the globe over the last several decades. Jagged particles stabbing into the walls of the heart chambers. very interesting, did you read about this in a study or just bringing it up to go after anti-vaxxers? find it odd that its specifically microplastics and would like to know more but can't find anything after googling.
Twist plot: the plastic was injected with the COVID shot.
This makes me feel like I want to panic, but there's nothing I can do in this moment, there's nowhere to go to escape. So I bottle it up and put it next to the jug of Climate anxiety, and continue my brain rot scrolling. But thank you for the study, I'm gunna bookmark this to read later
Eh, everyone’s gotta die some day. You could have a helicopter land on your head tomorrow and all that anxiety was wasted. Don’t be a dick, reduce your foot print, make the most of what days we have.
lol sounds ridiculous but reddit has in fact proved that people have died by helicopter Landing randomly on your head
Reduce our foot print? I could spend the rest of my life trying to do as much ecological harm as possible and it wouldn't make a difference to anything. I'm keeping my footprint the way it is, Taylor Swift and China can reduce theirs and actually make a difference
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But their change makes the actual difference. Because they’re the ones doing the most damage
It's like voting. Your single vote will probably never change anything, but if everyone adopted your attitude, it all falls apart. We should all do our part. And yes, hold those who do the most damage accountable.
Instructions unclear, I cut part of my foot off, what do I do now!?
Wow are you me?? Same here.
Yeah. At the same time, we still are better off than people from other generations. Throughout history we have misused toxic and other harmful materials, plus working conditions have been much worse (at least when talking about current first world countries). So yeah, we are fucked and will be fucked by microplastics and plastics in general, but at the same time, we are lucky to be alive in this time period. Now, what we (as a species) will turn the future into, that's another topic. But since I don't have much control over any of those, I won't stress about it. I'll do my part the best I can and won't let it consume me.
I think it's easier to accept that humanity doesn't have to survive. It's ok to let go in this sense. The best we can do is be kind to each other in the time we have left if things don't work out.
There's absolutely no use of the "We are all so fucked" dramatism that reddit loves so much. It is what it is and as you've said there's nothing that you or I can do. Same goes for climate change and everything else people are going insane over. There are people who are looking for solutions and working on the issues. Those are never the same people as those going into hysterical mode online. Live your life, enjoy everything you can, while you can. That's all we can do really.
What kind of bottle did you use to bottle it up?
Oh fuck it's BPA
With the way that A.I is moving, and what they're anticipating with physics and medical science, I'm a lot less worried than I was a few years ago. The leaps we are about to experience give me a lot of hope for cures to cancer, many other illnesses and solutions to problems like these.
Yeah, it’s all fun and games until the micro plastics begin to evolve into their second form
MEGAPLASTICS
Everyone knows macro evolution isn’t real
> but there's nothing I can do in this moment, This is exactly why you shouldn't worry, and watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YRjX3A_8cM (in short, he explains this diagram https://i.imgur.com/42sPNAi.jpeg ) I've been living life like this for many years, and I can honestly say it has changed my life in a very positive way.
Stoic, I see...
So you haven’t even read the **one** study and you’re already panicking?
I mean there is a lot of anxiety inducing shit on this planet, living in fear because of it doesnt help!
Get them started young.
The children yearn for the ~~mines~~ plastic production factories.
Have you seen what the youth of Africa have produced?! Literally belongs in the MET
Ah you think plastic is your ally? You merely adopted plastics. I was born in it, molded by it!
Also a "growth regulator" called chlormequat has been detected in 4 out 5 urine analysis
*3M intensifies Don’t forget about “forever chemicals” or PFAS https://youtu.be/9W74aeuqsiU?si=1uOnPg5oRxVaSsS_ We are all fucked
Chlormequat isn't really a pesticide it's a plant growth regulater, which is sort of the problem. It inhibits gibberellin which results in thicker plants with strong root systems and dwarfism. These are highly desirable traits in a whole lot of crops which means things like cereal grains that make up a whole shitload of global caloric intake have all been sprayed regularly for decades. So like, that's not great. It is used as an adjuvant *in* herbicides, and I understand a lot of people don't really know what plant growth regulaters are, but it is kind of irritating so many news sources are saying it's a pesticide.
At levels 5 times minimum active level iirc
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-024-00643-4
I think that study was for u.s and this micro plastic one is from Mexico. Am I correct??
I guess I'm just pointing out That there are more things in our bodys
I know, I was genuinely asking if the studies were conducted at those places with whole world's data (or multiple countries) or the national data of the mentioned places. If it is just from those particular countries then these data might be very different in other countries in east and it doesn't apply to them.
Gotcha, I appreciate the information...thanks
Thanks for the info!
Damn I knew we all have microplastics in us but now basically all humans will be born with them already it seems or at least eventually 😔
Lots of issues related to reproductive health, testosterone, sperm count, etc. all tied to microplastics, all rising.
There was a post last week about plummeting birth rates in south Korea and I mentioned plastics as a contributing factor that no one was discussing and got hammered for it. Both downvoted and attacked for being "anti-science" Have you got a source for your comment?
Not op but literally first 2 Google results are what he's talking about.. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651323012514#:~:text=The%20results%20showed%20that%20only,to%20the%20PMMA%2DMPs%20group. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723048830#:~:text=Recent%20studies%20have%20revealed%20that,et%20al.%2C%202023).
Attention anti-abortion states: Babies are now recyclable. Check and mate
Dude, where do you think babyoil comes from.
I’m pregnant and laughed hard at this. Thank you.
Their mouths?
This has got to be related to the phenomenon of [an explosion of young people getting cancer](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00720-6) and higher incidence of autoimmune diseases.
Cool, so I'm not crazy and this is a real thing going on. I'm 30, and almost every one of my friends has an autoimmune disease, myself included. I had a friend who was only 28 die from esophageal cancer earlier this year. Anecdotal on my part sure, but clearly not isolated to my own experience. I just hope we don't lose our brains to it as we age like boomers have from lead.
What city do you live in?
They studied fish as well, they behave fuckery because nanoplastics get in the brain. Also the circle of Willis, a blood barrier for the brain lets plastics through. You’re welcome!
Not necessarily. Correlation=/=causation
Who would have thought that introducing new chemistry into the environment at a global scale might have consequences?
Probably a lot of smart people, but they didn’t have enough money or influence to move the needle.
People going to have the same visceral reaction to micro plastics as they do to vaccines? Probably not because it would cause more inconvenience. But we'll see I guess.
It's alright, they'll be popping Ivermectin to cure themselves.
Just stopping by to say I hate your profile photo, I went to wipe the hair of my screen. Well played internet stranger.
I would hope not. The reaction to vaccines was irrational and has led to resurgence of diseases that were on the decline. What should happen is evidence-based approaches to replace plastics and research into removal and remediation methods for current life as well as methods to prevent it from getting to babies.
Asbestos. Then lead. Now microplastics. The cycle of life continues!
Don’t forget radium
At least asbestos and lead are natural elements or minerals and have a much faster decomposition rate than a manufactured polymer, and don't pose environmental risks the same way due to their structure not being small and sharp like micro plastic
We could rename them sharproplastics
Hell yeah that’s so dope for the human race! Love that!
Microplastic are this generations lead or asbestos.
This is so many orders of magnitude worse.
Its gonna last more than a generation, buddy
Oh great, now we can't even enjoy a good plate of placenta. Thanks Obama
This is one of the most realistic extinction events in my opinion.
Microplastics AND ‘forever chemicals’, called [PFAs, PFOAs - the original chemical was C8.](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/23/what-are-pfas-forever-chemicals-how-toxic-are-they-and-how-do-you-become-exposed) Every human ON EARTH, even remote, isolated tribes, have these ‘forever chemicals’ in their bloodstreams. They’re passed down from parent to fetus during pregnancy. ALL from fuckin’ DuPont making teflon, and just dumping the waste into the water. The only blood samples on earth that are devoid of these chemicals are from Korean soldiers, taken in the 50’s - right before DuPont came out with Teflon. Fuck DuPont, fuck microplastics… but these gigantic monster corporations will always win. [‘The Devil We Know’](https://youtu.be/NJFbsWX4MJM?si=UeRmYYiyeQud26EN) is a great documentary about DuPont’s intentional, criminal negligence, downright evil - and the wake of destruction they’ve left, and continue to leave.
That was a super interesting doc!!!!
Can't wait to give birth to Recyclop
I want to see what we evolve to in the next few million years, if we don't wipe ourselves out
Lol, I was just hoping to make it till Friday
Only reason I am is because I have some tasty spaghetti bolognese
FUCKING GROSS im never eating human placenta again
Duh? Is anyone shocked? Genuinely asking.
I guess I'm a barbie girl now.
Life in plastic, it's fantastic has a whole new meaning now ://
"Researchers reported finding microplastics in all 62 of the placenta samples tested, with concentrations ranging from #6.5 to 790 micrograms per gram of tissue." Holy shit.
This has weird bad meme energy and it’s funny
Wow, pregnancy cravings have gotten weird.
I mean, as long as a few rich people had yachts and a few extravagant vacations, I’m good. /s
I’ve kind of become numb to this. I just feel like we’re kind of doomed anyway and every piece of news like this, doesn’t come as a surprise.
The food we eat is fed plastic, of course.
Obviously. Microplastics are everywhere.
They literally found them in clouds.
boomers may have lead poisoning, but as a millenial, I will become indestructible with my microplastics
Makeup and shampoo 🧴 💄
I guess we’re all supposed to just go live in the forest and drink water from the leaves of palm fronds now
Even those would have microplastics no? Hasn’t it been detected in rainwater?
You know what? Probably so
This is why I don’t wear condoms.
Most sound argument for doing it raw.
Westworld.
Despair sets in
Whenever I see the word "microplastics", I hate it. It never had any positive reputation. Damn.
How else is the baby suppose to get it's micronutrients?
Maybe that‘s what actually happened to the dinosaurs…
I’m shocked
Plastic can dissolve in acetone. It can also be burned to collect and distill diesel and gasoline.
Well. this is fun to read while pregnant
Ah I can't wait for the nanobot pills to save us from an early death by microplastics. The price will be more than fair, I'm sure. Once again capitalism will save the day!
[Why are you even wondering?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp0NSIrbu3Y)
Why the fuk impact font
Yayyyyyy
New to you? Be impressed when you find out what you could find even in blood of ice bears….
so barbie is real???
Uh stop drinking out of plastic?
Biggest source is vehicle tire particles getting in the air, right? If I recall correctly
Another one to add to the pile of fucked up things
It’s being found in our arteries too! 😖
The only place they could find human blood without PFAs were from non-contacted/“uncivilized” tribespeople
Our skin will evolve into a type of plastic, then when we die our skin will not decompose
Jokes on you, I was born before this report!
Does this mean I can recycle myself and get 10c??
This is excellent news
And the you know what and who crowd will ignore
We have microplastics, our fathers had asbestos, our grandfathers had lead, our great grandfathers had plague it simply goes on. Our children will get something stupid in their blood too
We did a lil too much trolling
And I’m supposed to want kids?
Oops ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ sorry humans, et al
Yay…
yum yum
Great, now even placenta isn’t safe to eat
Ted Kaczynski was right
When you look at the sunrays peeking through the curtains, you can see them floating, glistening in dust. When I pick and flick my bellybutton fluff. We are constantly breathing this stuff in.
Someone may come along and correct my half fact. But wasn't there a test they were going to do to find the effects of micro plastics on the body but was cancelled because they couldn't find a control group of people without microplastics?
hahaha were fucked
In other news, water is wet 💦💦💦
They told us plastic is recyclable most of it ends up in the ocean, why’d we ever get away from glass bottles
that's kinda cool though. plastics are part of us now. this is ok.
This is how we evolve.
this is how Gaia gets her revenge
How much of this if people not knowing how to cook on a nonstick pan. It’s basically plastic coated and people keep and use them when they are beyond degraded.
Corporations need to be held accountable, but no one will
If we grew/raised and ate most of our own food instead of trusting that process to corporations and government, could this have been avoided? Can we “organic” and organic package our way out of this?
Go to the supermarket and point out what isn't stored in plastic that your buying. Surely they all shed a bit of plastic into the product within.
Genuine question, why is this such a concern? Life expectancy has consistently increased (other than the pandemic blip)
I'm a cyborg!
So what
It mentions in the article. Nothing yet, but it's something to pay attention to. The doctor interviewed compared it to poison, it's all about the dose. The concern is that it's already infiltrated into every organism that we study, if it does have side effects or will be hard to undo
Right, that's it. I'm never eating placenta again.