So have the millennials who were breast fed.

It looks like the cumulative total of plastics produced by the 80's was around 2-3 trillion billion tons, whereas now it's probably more like 20-30B.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/exports/global-plastics-production.png

Right? Haha 😂 Oh did we suddenly clean up the entire Earth from free roaming microplastics?

why the alpabet suddenly changes after Z? it should either be "omega & alpha" or "z & a"

You'd have people saying they like the lead and deliberately putting more of it in. Pussy-ass liberals trying to take their god given lead away...

for the past few months ive started to think we're like a couple years away from putting lead back in the gasoline

Someone will call not wanting lead poisoning woke and that will be that.

There's actually a lot of work going into documenting and replacing lead service lines in the US. EPA required every state to make sure every waterworks submitted an inventory by last October, with grant money through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to pay for it.

If it was more in the zeitgeist, kids would be huffing it on tiktok.

Who said that? Lead poisoning is still rampant in some communities.

I mean most others will skip out on the toothpaste variant, but yeah, it's out there like that kraftwerk song.

Most lead intoxication in boomers comes from leaded gasoline, lead in other presentations is less bio-available

The amount of it in our environment has been ever increasing though. There's more of it in the oceans, the soil, the rivers, the plants. The whole food chain and ecosystems are contaminated more than ever before.

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.

We are just beginning to understand how much the chemical Imbalances that lead to depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders originate in the digestive tract and how microplastics from food may disrupt the processing of these chemicals.

We don't know about the longer term consequences yet, just like we didn't about lead.

Not saying it's a definite but I wouldn't be surprised.

My non-professional guess is that microplastics will eventually sterilize us by disrupting our sperm's ability to function properly. Only the wealthy can afford the medical procedures to bypass this.

Depression, I would say. Same as how boomers are labeled as uncaring and sociopathic because of lead.

I think it's more physiological. Since microplastics are ingested maybe it's related to the rise in oral and rectal cancers.

We must become one with the plastic. It's the only way.

And literally nothing came of it, this whole thing is fear mongering and political theater.

and probably will for at least a few generations unless we can do some major filtering of all mediums

Freon too?! Some people really want to watch the world burn.

I once ate shrooms and went to a club (late 90s in the Netherlands, psytrance). The party experience was complete gone for me, it was just like watching a nature show, where I heard a David Attenborough narator talk about how the female of the species was using various color pigments on her face to attract the male. While the males where using dance moves to show strength and virility.

I've run across at least three separate articles now of researchers from across the world discovering plastic eating bacteria in the wild. Short plastic. Its days are numbered.