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Microplastics have accumulated as well as other forever chemicals, and awareness of them. It's likely several factors at play and at different severities in di
by paulryanrogers 3y ago
Microplastics have accumulated as well as other forever chemicals, and awareness of them.
It's likely several factors at play and at different severities in different places.
- AlexandrB 3y agoI think awareness of microplastics, etc. kind of undermines this theory. In the 60s we were spraying all kinds of crazy crap - CFCs, DDT - into the environment and plastic was already pretty widely used, while recycling was nowhere in sight. 5-6 decades of additional plastic accumulation is not nothing, but people are much more aware - hence the return of metal water bottles, for example. Many pesticides/herbicides have also either been banned outright or are much harder to get since then. Plus microplastics likely accumulate over your lifetime - a mental health issue caused by microplastics would show up much more quickly in the elderly of middle aged than in teens.