Microplastics are a fuck

  • cybernetsoc [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    This is why I only drink rain water and pure distilled grain alcohol. Gotta keep the bodily fluids pure.

        • Ziegebock [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          What? where and why is it illegal to collect rainwater?

          • MichoganGayFrog [they/them]
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            4 years ago

            It's intended to be for people collecting massive quantities for agriculture or whatever to the point it can fuck with rivers and stuff. However I live in a city so it's probably also to keep you using city water which is semi privatized.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    What if the Zoomers are the last generation able to have children, as the whole human race ends up sterilized by 2050?

  • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Matt had a rant about that a while back and it’s effect on people’s ability to have children

    • cybernetsoc [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Well, I am sure this is not healthy in any way, and the reduced sperm count is ominous, this connection hasn't been proven as far as I am aware. The connection is a correlation=causation thing. So take heart, there could be a totally separate bonus environmental poisoning that is causing the infertility!

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
        hexagon
        MA
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        4 years ago

        If I remember it has to do with all of the human body's filtration organs being stuffed with microplastics and the chems it leeches into the body affects the endocrine system (The organs that help produce and regulate your hormone levels) negatively with both lower sperm cell count and a degradation of the quality of egg cells in addition to the fact that the interference in your hormonal regulation system starts fucking with a lot of stuff in your body.

      • Ziegebock [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I haven't heard of a link between microplastics and sperm counts, but BPA consumption and exposure is a noted risk. I think it degrades into an endocrine disrupter or something. turns the frogs gay and the like.

  • TheModerateTankie [any]
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    4 years ago

    So what dude, I eat credit cards all the time and I'm fine. I've never been convicted of anything.

  • EcoSoco [he/him]M
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    4 years ago

    I'm not surprised but that is very concerning....no wonder cancer rates are on the rise in the past few decades (helped by other reasons, of course).

  • LibsEatPoop2 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    So this is fucking horrifying. I was wondering what will be the lead poisoning/asbestos of our generation -_- Any ideas on how to not eat/drink plastic? Other than overthrowing capitalism?

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      4 years ago

      Drinking filtered water from a non-plastic container, producing less plastic, having organisms that can chemically break down plastics at the fundamental level, and living as far away as possible from where there is plastic breaking down (lol).

  • Tofu_Lewis [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Ahhh the U.S., where I have the freedom to choose whether to drink the water out of my tap that gives me the runs even after going through a filter, or drink water out of plastic bottles and gamble on whatever longterm impact microplastics have on the human body.

  • RedArmor [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    If capitalism is so fucking great, why don’t they find a way to profit off of the plastic in the ocean if they can find a way to take it out?

    • ennuid [he/him]
      cake
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      4 years ago

      I think that's the issue with microplastics: they linger

  • owin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Is this only if you drink bottled water or tap? I use a Britta filter so does that catch microplastic?

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
      hexagon
      MA
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      4 years ago

      both. pretty much anything that uses plastic is contaminated by it on contact.

      • owin [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        This doesn't make sense, of course anything in contact with plastic gets some plastic in it, but you're saying it can't be filtered out, or that no difference in quantity is of importance.