pleasestopasking@reddthat.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days agoMicroplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennialsmessage-squaremessage-square143linkfedilinkarrow-up1590
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minus-squaresupersquirrel@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 days agoI 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.
minus-squarepiecat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·2 days agoThe concentration of them is rising exponentially, that’s the part that terrifies me. It’s possible we just haven’t crossed a threshold yet.
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.
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.