One day, plastic will be understood to be a carcinogen like how we think of asbestos.
Fuck are you on about?! Sucking down microplastics is hardly a new phenomenon, we’re just now understanding the scale of the problem. If microplastics were anywhere near asbestos we’d all be dead, right now today.
Signed, man whose father died of mesothelioma from his WWII service below decks on a destroyer. And BTW, nearly every other man on that ship died of mesothelioma, mom tracked the widows down.
If microplastics were anywhere near asbestos we’d all be dead, right now today.
Be still my beating heart
Drink some ice water.
“The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”
Plastic… asshole.”
―George Carlin
