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this might be worse than generational lead poisoning
a lot more people are getting cancer at younger ages than before
Maybe pumping chemicals and plastic into the food and water supply is actually really good for us. I bet everyone didn't think about that.
Citation pls?
Step 1: assessment of current situation as a bad thing
Step 2: lemmy user defends bad thing for reasons, as one does
Step 3: ablockalypse nao
There's no way microplastics are worse than heavy metal poisoning.
The scale of this though...
We used to put lead in gasoline and emit lead fumes everywhere we drove. I still don't think microplastics can compare.
worse is pretty subjective… is brain damage worse than brain cancer?
the full effects of this aren’t understood, of course… but my money is on: very very bad.
Nah, generational lead poisoning gave us the Great Regression, taking our boomers and making them the way they are instead of being their parents, who flew to the moon and made the UN as a way to foster discission before jumping into war. There was hope in humanity's actions before lead made myopic narcissists who were okay with poisoning the world.
lead was in everything way before the boomers… pipes, cups, plates, paint… people used to bite lead fishing weights….
lead led to the downfall of rome….
the generations before the boomers were plenty good at poisoning the earth…. and many boomers did want to stop it and started the whole hippie thing, earth day, and civil right….
it’s all so much more complex than that….
It was leaded gasoline that made lead ubiquitous. Previously folks could minimize the exposure with precaution but by 1930 it was inescapable. No longer limited to physical proximity, lead fumes ensured it was in the air and rain put it in the water.