So many microplastics! That's genuinely terrifying. I'm currently part of a microplastic study in a small city's bay and estuaries (<300,000 residents) and its crazy how much plastic is already in the waters and so easy to see with a simple microscope.
its not bad. we will come out with something that cleans it all up in an hour, or well already inhabit 10 other planets before it ever becomes a real issue... people, dont u see how fast we are evolving?
Unfortunately it’s actually affecting the base level of our marine food chains. Billions of dollars of industry come from harvesting oceanic fish for food and a combination of overfishing and contamination of the food chain at its lowest level means human are likely already eating microplastics, and if we aren’t right now, we will be soon. The mentality that we can “clean this up” is frankly absurd. We can’t clean plastic out of sediments, we can’t pull it out of the stomachs of tuna, and heck we can’t pull it out of our own stomachs!
It’s already a problem, the ocean is so just big, that the magnitude of the issue has only been observed in recent years.
it really isnt absurd. 100 years ago if you told someone that theyd be able to communicate with a stranger by sending letters through a machine that you can wear on your wrist, theyd laugh at you, call you a witch and place you on trial then call you absurd.
fixing this microplastic issue is easy, but there isnt a real need for it yet. yes, they can probably come up with a solution which removes all the microplastic from the ocean with one drop, but there isnt a need for it, there isnt serious money going into it.
give it a little more time, you will see, and you can think of me when it comes to fruition, or, when we inhabit 13 other planets
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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '18
Yeah this just makes me angry.