EspiritdescaliMA to FuturologyEnglish · 6 months agoMicroplastics found in every human semen sample tested in studywww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1284arrow-down18cross-posted to: world@lemmy.worldworldnews@lemmit.onlinescience@lemmit.onlinescience@lemmit.online
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minus-squareSparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·6 months agoThere’s no way microplastics are worse than heavy metal poisoning.
minus-squareSparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·6 months agoWe used to put lead in gasoline and emit lead fumes everywhere we drove. I still don’t think microplastics can compare.
minus-squarecor@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoworse 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.
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.