• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
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    14 hours ago

    Within the universe of plastic chemicals, we’re looking at the last academic count at about 16,000 chemicals that are used or present in plastics."

    Dr Symeonides says only one-third of those chemicals appear to have been evaluated for their potential hazard, and about “75 per cent” of those evaluated have been identified as hazardous.

    So basically flood the world with chemicals without care if they’re dangerous and be very surprised when bad things happen.

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      “The solution to pollution is dilution” is capitalist propaganda to avoid paying for their externalities.

      We live in an enclosed biosphere, and have been polluting it — poisoning it — well beyond what is sustainable for well over a century, and are continuing to peak ecocide every year, with no reduction in sight.

      So yeah, we have microplastics in our balls and brains, are breathing air, drinking water, and eating food, with an ever increasing number of synthetic chemical compounds that are literally poisonous. What the fuck we think was gonna happen? Eternal youth?

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        Quite sure there is PFAS that will some day make us all sterile. Humanity will go with a whimper. Last being small lab grown authoritarian societies.