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This article seems a bit breathless. I wonder if the author realises that plants grow in the dirt and risk having insects crawling all over them. And the sheer
by roenxi 1y ago
This article seems a bit breathless. I wonder if the author realises that plants grow in the dirt and risk having insects crawling all over them. And the sheer number of lifestyle diseases people have. It'll take more than plastic having negative health outcomes for it to be a problem; it'd need to be some pretty substantial problems to outweigh the use people get from plastics.
> One of the studies included in the new review found 1 liter of water — the equivalent of two standard-size bottled waters bought at the store — contained an average of 240,000 plastic particles from seven types of plastics
How many non-plastic particles? I've heard it said there's enough uranium in seawater that we can theoretically use it to generate power.
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- floundy 1y ago>plants grow in the dirt and risk having insects crawling all over them Non-sequitor. >And the sheer number of lifestyle diseases people have. Red herring. Other peoples' diabetes or obesity doesn't really impact me. Plastic has contaminated water and soil, it's not possible to opt out of the consequences of others using it even if you do not use it yourself. >I've heard it said Must be true!
- roenxi 1y agohttps://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2023/december/extracting-uranium-from-seawater-as-another-source-of-nuclear-fuel.html https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2023/december/extrac... if you want to read up on it. It's quite a fascinating area.
- MonkeyIsNull 1y ago> Non-sequitor. > Red herring. > Must be true! Someone took a class (or two) on Arguments!
- thunfischtoast 1y ago> plants grow in the dirt and water is wet. What is your point?
- reactordev 1y agoThat they were pointing out an obvious, which you doubled down on
- Supermancho 1y agoReads more like plants grow in dirt, which is bad. AND it has insects crawl all over them, which is bad. Neither are true, anymore than water being wet is bad.
- roenxi 1y agoWhat is the article's point? It strings together a bunch of facts into a fact string. Everything causes cancer and it turns out microplastics cause cancer since they are a thing. They (might, correlation and causation) double the risk of heart attacks which is comparable to a lazy bloke having a desk job. Might be lazy blokes with desk jobs have more microwave dinners though so who knows if that is a real signal.
- realo 1y agoA lemon ... some metal ... Voom! Power! Must be all that uranium in the lemons too.