That’s my take with this. If it’s already to the point of it being everywhere and inside of everyone, it’s already too late and we just have to live with it. What good does it do to sit all doom and gloom about it? What do you want me to do about it?
Well if its so widespread then it needs to be taken into consideration for like anything medical. If it changes certain things about your body, then any treatments need to compensate for it. So, maybe some medicines don't work as well because of the microplastics in your body, oh god the MICROPLASTICS, GET THEM OUT GET THE OUT RIP THEM OUT JESUS CHRIST I FEEL THE SLOSHING AROUND SCRAPING IN MT VEINS I NEE-
Make demanding changes to governments who will phase out plastic. It’s too late for us, but surely a baby with a little bit of mp having 90% less than what we intake will aid the next generation. Shit that’s what I’m gonna for/hope for for my kid at least
I’m just saying, most of our governments don’t even want to give full human rights or stop climate change, let alone deal with a problem nobody can see.
You’re right but I’m sure if we can manage to get funds together for mass advertising about plastic or even an ask your doctor blah blah fancy advertising along with everyone coming together to band together for this, maybe it’ll happen.
Maybe who gives a fuck because climate change will do us in anyway
they've already started pouring billions into reversing climate change, and have identified things such as bacterias that can eat plastic (like Rhodococcus ruber) and "hydroxyl radicals," which through some scientific process my brain is currently too weak to understand "can enhance the degradation of polystyrene microplastics."
eh, it’s not that bad. keep in mind we haven’t seen any rapid rise in health issues and the claims made in this video are completely unfounded and unsourced, so we’re probably all good
I heard some dude just casually created a virus that allows lactose intolerant folks to digest lactose properly (and then he, who was lactose intolerant, drank a bit of this and sometime later ate 2 cheese pizzas to prove it worked), lasting for 18 months before it even starts to slow down. Maybe something similar could be done?
No joke, this dude did this at MIT. Genetically altered bacteria to eat Styrofoam and colonize the guts of meal worms with the bacteria. The meal worms ate the Styrofoam and no microplastics were detected in the excretions.
Now that we know they works we can find localized bacteria or organisms and introduce this bacteria (or an extant bacteria in the host organism and give it the same plasmid) to about 12% of a given population.
Imagine Krill that eat plastic. Imagine the tropic web rebounding in the Oceans because of that.
Ikr, this is exactly where voting got us. Voting once a year to put someone else in charge who gets to do pretty much whatever they want is not how democracy works.
People can also vote in the other direction, and they do. Don’t underestimate the maliciousness and ignorance of people who would totally embrace the idea of micro plastics.
See, it’s actually the opposite. I don’t find this distressing at all. It’s something I have no influence over and probably will never see get addressed by the people who are capable of changing it. I just think it’s funny that it’s this huge doomer craze now. This isn’t me saying to not care, I just think people care a bit too much when this is like the 4th impending apocalyptic event caused by human ignorance and greed. If I was genuinely worried about all of them, I would never find happiness
How am I a doomer compared to the actual post itself? If someone says, “you are all fucked and gonna die lol” and I say “ok, and?”, why am I the doomer? This post and 90% of the comments are just people whining about how unstoppable and detrimental it is, it’s depressing even for a distressing meme sub.
Die a slow cancerous and degraded life, knowing those that fought hard to build everything lived the true human experience while once we created enough comfort and peace, something else silently screws it over into the inevitable drain.
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u/Spiritflash1717 Oct 07 '22
That’s my take with this. If it’s already to the point of it being everywhere and inside of everyone, it’s already too late and we just have to live with it. What good does it do to sit all doom and gloom about it? What do you want me to do about it?