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> Are we all dead? Disabled? Dying The problem with poisons is that we view them in a binary way. They're either bad, or they're not. They either hurt you, or
by consteval 2y ago
> Are we all dead? Disabled? Dying
The problem with poisons is that we view them in a binary way. They're either bad, or they're not. They either hurt you, or they don't.
But in reality it doesn't always work this way. There's infinite levels of bad.
Eating off a lead plate, as the greeks did, is poisonous but certainty not deadly. Nobody was disabled.
Instead, the rich just slowly went insane over the course of their lives. Across decades, their mental state deteriorated as they grew mad. For their society, impossible to perceive. Too slow, too widespread.
Obviously we don't know the extent or even if there is anything bad about microplastics. But if there were, would we even be able to tell by the time we get there? Or would that just become life?
- timr 2y agoYeah, I know. The dose makes the poison. Water is toxic if you drink enough of it. The point is: without evidence that "the poison" is actually toxic, and certainly without evidence that it's more toxic than anything else you're regularly doing, then you're effectively just fretting. In the case of microplastics, we basically have neither. We have some weak lines of evidence of minor harm in other animals, and lots and lots of theories about what might happen. Note that I didn't say "don't worry about it". I just said "don't be terrified".
- bamboozled 2y agoCould lead plates be found in the arctic, or in clouds ? Personally I feel like the environmental contamination is the problem. Let's say we do workout this is causing some type of health issue, that's it , there is no way to fix this. We've contaminated everything with microplastics and there's little doubt , if we keep doing it, it WILL cause major issues, at least for the ecosystem, which we do rely on and that will have negative effects for us.