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There isn't anywhere in the world where you can live without fear or worry of contaminated water or air. Microplastics for example have been found in: sea sal
by ryanmercer 8y ago
There isn't anywhere in the world where you can live without fear or worry of contaminated water or air.
Microplastics for example have been found in:
sea salt - https://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/stories/sea-salt-contains-alarming-amount-microplastics https://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/stories/sea-sa...
water - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/15/microplastics-found-in-more-than-90-of-bottled-water-study-says https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/15/micropla...
air - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/09/people-may-be-breathing-in-microplastics-health-expert-warns https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/09/people-m...
poop - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/microplastics-found-lurking-human-stool-first-time-180970613/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/microplastics-foun...
And of course thanks to all of the atomic/nuclear weapons we've detonated, everyone alive right now holds radioactive evidence from those detonations in their bodies https://www.businessinsider.com/bomb-pulse-radiation-decay-cells-2016-8 https://www.businessinsider.com/bomb-pulse-radiation-decay-c...
Then there's the ozone damage we've done and the fact someone in China is still using, or has recently been anyway, CFCs - https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/27/investigators-china-illegal-cfc-emissions/ https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/27/investigators-china-ille...
And mercury from coal smoke - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1309104215304451 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S130910421...
Lead in soil from: leaded paints, past use of leaded gasoline, lead water-supply piping in the US until the 1920's, lead in in plumbing solder in the US until 1986...
- TylerE 8y agoThis sounds very fear mongery. I bet you'd get more radiation from eating a Banana than the residual radiation of every nuclear test combined.
- ryanmercer 8y agoYou selected one of several points and took it entirely out of context adding your own bias. The point is, we've contaminated the entire planet with various things as a direct result of our actions.