Bold of you to think that the microplastic is going to go away after one generation…
Who said that? Lead poisoning is still rampant in some communities.
I think the question is, why are you bringing up millennials when the issue of microplastics did not start with them, nor will it end with them.
I mean most others will skip out on the toothpaste variant, but yeah, it’s out there like that kraftwerk song.
Every generation alive has microplastics in them
and probably will for at least a few generations unless we can do some major filtering of all mediums
And literally nothing came of it, this whole thing is fear mongering and political theater.
Except that microplastics have been a major problematic thing since basically plastic become a popular thing, we just didn’t know it yet back then. It’s not like millenials invented plastic or popularized its use.
The amount of it in our environment has been ever increasing though. There’s more of it in the oceans, the soil, the rivers, the plants. The whole food chain and ecosystems are contaminated more than ever before.
At what point does it become macroplastic? kiloplastic for the Europeans.
The pipes in the US still contain plenty of lead. Also, Covid brain damage. Tons of it.
Most lead intoxication in boomers comes from leaded gasoline, lead in other presentations is less bio-available
Everyone has microplastics, even newborn babies, and we have no sign of decrease in its use.
We must become one with the plastic. It’s the only way.
Luckily, for the younger generations, we’ll probably just get cancer instead of becoming massive malleable assholes
Don’t forget about PFAS!
Boomers had/have microplastics and lead poisoning. This is not a conspiracy, it is just a fact.
Did someone say it was a conspiracy?
Can someone tell me what microplastics do to the body? I’m almost too afraid to ask at this point.
That’s the neat thing: nobody can. It’s incredibly hard to devise a study that can show anything about it. There is no way to get a human without microplastics in them to get a control group, and by this point as far as I know there is no plausible theory to get a specific study.
Everyone kinda suspects that it can’t be good for you, simultaneously there is zero actual evidence that something is ever happening. We don’t know, and that’s very frustrating.It seems like they’d be fairly inert. Although that’s certainly no guarantee that they’re not really bad for you. Much like inert gas, the danger could well be them replacing or getting in the way of something else.
Veritasium has a video about it on YouTube.
It’s very informative and may just give you the fix you’re looking for
IIRC the one thing we are sure of is that they don’t break down, nor do they get out. So you better hope they don’t do anything bad on top of that
Probably do the same thing most of the junk humans dump into the environment. Reduce average lifespan, cause diseases and reduced fertility.
Boomers also have them, or do you think they intentionally target millennials?
My dad’s car ran on 4 star right up until the mid 90s. I was exposed to plenty lead in my formative years as well as micro plastics.
The ol twofer
Don’t forget the nanoplastics! These are even more hazardous!
Bah. I dont care about lead, microplastics or even covid.
Chernobyl and mad cow-disease are my jam.
I still licked lead pain in the craddle, ate too many food preservatives and artificial colorants, ate too much red meat, too much fat, got micro plastics poisoning…
And all I have to tell is bad breath, flatulence that could strip paint off the walls and a stupid sense of humour.
Millennials? More like GenX. We’ve been eating out of microwaved tupperware since the sixties.
So have the millennials who were breast fed.
And formula fed
Mmmm, tasty math.
The worst part: postpartum women have lower levels of microplastics than other adults.
I was reading somewhere you can lower the level of PFAS in your blood by donating it.
So you’re saying the baby took some of the plastic out of them, that’s horribly depressing at least they got 10 to 15 point IQ boost in return
Might be that. Although your body goes into absolute overdrive during pregnancy, and it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that some of the immune system reactions that kick in manage to eject some level of plastic microparticulates
Seems Like something people should be definitely looking into to find out why, with the state of science in America It’s probably not going to be here
I’ve thought more about it. I bet there’s fucking loads in the placenta.
That was my question too, I wonder if there is a reliable way to measure where it all went, or if it’s just diluted in the increased blood volume.
There’s also the possibility that with are more careful with their intake during pregnancy, but that could be controlled for in survey data.
Most likely its the same reason blood donation lowers microplastic levels in blood. Production of new cells that aren’t tainted with it. A woman’s blood volume increases by 40% during pregnancy. Of course ill freely admit thats just a hypothesis and you’re probably right, there would be benefit into studying it.
It looks like the cumulative total of plastics produced by the 80’s was around 2-3
trillionbillion tons, whereas now it’s probably more like 20-30B.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/exports/global-plastics-production.png
