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Microplastics Are Chemically Active, and Could Cause Biological Harm (news.columbia.edu)
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[–] 23 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Honestly I remember hearing that plastic molecules are stable and inert, I thought microplastics wouldn’t cause problems beyond accumulating and “clogging”

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  • [–] 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    I mean... fiberglass and asbestos are actually chemically inert, yet they'll still fuck you up good. It's a bit silly to think any foreign contamination is harmless.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Lead has a very stable nucleolus. Forever chemicals (PFAS) were named that because they were stable. CFCs were pretty harmless too until we learned about ozone layer.

    Anything that industry makes and distributes in large quantities throughout the world is pretty bad because by the time we learn about long term impacts, it's everywhere

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago

    but remember the mantra of these cretins for the past century or few; "the solution to pollution is dilution!". Never mind all the demonstrably terrible effects of quite a few things in the parts per billion/trillion...

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