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That's overly simplistic. The negative health effects might be lagging, because when plastic was invented there were zero micro plastics in the environment an
by stackghost 2y ago
That's overly simplistic. The negative health effects might be lagging, because when plastic was invented there were zero micro plastics in the environment and now there are lots.
To wit, life expectancies in North America have been declining the last few years.
- exe34 2y ago> life expectancies in North America have been declining the last few years. I'm sure that has nothing to do with predatory health insurance companies.
- stackghost 2y agoMaybe it does and maybe it doesn't but the fact remains it's overly simplistic to assume that plastic production doesn't temporally lead changes in health effects by some amount. To suggest otherwise is clueless and asinine.
- exe34 2y agodoes the US consume a lot more plastic than elsewhere?
- stackghost 2y agoProbably. But frankly I don't care, because that's irrelevant. Plastic pollution is global.
- exe34 2y agoin which case it doesn't explain why America specifically has a lowered life expectancy.
- stackghost 2y agoIt's almost like life expectancies cannot be explained by a single variable, and the original claim that life expectancies went up thus plastics aren't bad is overly simplistic. Imagine that.
- stevenAthompson 2y agoThe CDC announced yesterday or this morning that they're back to pre COVID levels. It seems they're done dropping for now. Also, plastics have been around for 100+ years. That would be one heck of a lag. *EDIT* They're not back to pre-COVID levels yet, but getting closer.
- Retric 2y agoHaving just killed off over a million of the least healthy Americans makes things appear better than they actually are.
- stevenAthompson 2y agoI see your point, but I suspect it's at least equally valid to assert that our average lifespans also fell due to COVID. Mortality isn't the only impact it had, and long term effects linger.