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If someone introduced microplastics to your house while you had no part in it - so you find yourself eating and breathing little bits of hydrocarbon chemicals w
by strainer 5y ago
If someone introduced microplastics to your house while you had no part in it - so you find yourself eating and breathing little bits of hydrocarbon chemicals which none of your ancestors in natural history have ever ingested. No mites can digest it, no moulds can compost it, nothing has ever lived with it, its just a new mysterious stuff that you and your children are going to be surrounded by, and get in your lungs and blood and live within from now on ... And you feel fine about it until convinced by science that you shouldnt. Against the advertisements and persuasions of a big industry, how long did it take to establish that cigarette smoke was dangerous? Leaded petrol? AGW?
Ay but its probably fine! We can only imagine, chick skeletons full of plastic beads, certain species of sea creatures and microbiota due to perish because they mistake plastic for food, ecologicaly distruptively novel microbiota evolving which may capable of digesting the different kinds of plastic and additives which are alien to life - after billions of years, an alien substance everywhere. No probs, no 'credible evidence' of probs. Carry on then.
- formerly_proven 5y agoThe funny thing about tobacco is that it was widely known to be very toxic for hundreds of years before cigarettes were invented. Likewise people realized that leaded petrol (and its fumes) would be toxic, the state and petrol industry disregarded this because leaded petrol was seen as alternativlos. Science has a fairly decent track record at finding these things. Policy has a fairly shit track record at responding.
- Gravityloss 5y agoLead paint was banned here in 1929. I think in USA in the seventies?
- marcosdumay 5y agoYet lead was known to be toxic since ancient times. As the GP said, science has a good track record of identifying those things.
- Gravityloss 5y agoYeah, so cigarettes, climate change, endocrine disruptors, soil depletion, dioxines, phosphorus catastrophe.
- marcosdumay 5y agoOk, I think phosphorous catastrophes were not predicted.
- Gravityloss 5y agoThere's a global one ongoing. Basically phosphorus that has accumulated over a long time is flushed to the seas in a hundred years.
- beervirus 5y agoSo, no evidence then?
- gizmondo 5y ago> And you feel fine about it until convinced by science that you shouldnt. Do you per chance also advocate against 5G?