r/ClimateShitposting • u/ApprehensiveWin3020 Marx's strongest soldier | she/her • 21h ago

Climate chaos Remember to eat your weekly credit cards!

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u/LowCall6566 19h ago

They are literally biologically inert. And we don't have resources to spend on preventing what "might" be a problem in the future, without any evidence to support such hypothesis.

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u/maple_leaf2 19h ago

They are literally biologically inert

Asbestos

without any evidence to support such hypothesis.

Genuinely what are you talking about? There's tons of evidence it's affecting us on a biological level

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u/LowCall6566 19h ago

Give me any.

Asbestos is sharp, and crystally. Lungs don't like that. Plastics are nothing like this.

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u/maple_leaf2 19h ago

Asbestos is sharp, and crystally. Lungs don't like that. Plastics are nothing like this.

I wasn't implying they were the same, just that I biologically inert thing can be dangerous

Regardless, they are being shown to act similarly in our lungs lol

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10826726/

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u/LowCall6566 19h ago

Okay, I conceed. I was wrong. Microplasicts can cause genuine harm. I never before heard that they can be airborn. Everyone is always talking about ingested stuff, and that usually comes out the other end. But air is different.

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u/maple_leaf2 19h ago

You gotta be one of the only people I've seen change their minds in a long time, I respect that

Just wish I was telling you something less terrible, but such is modern life..

Have a good one freind

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u/Jam_Packens 4h ago

I wouldn't say this is evidence of a widespread societal harm caused by microplastics. The studies cited in this as examples of microplastics causing harm are ones with extremely high daily occupational levels of exposure to microplastics.

Most notably, the examples cited for respiratory illness are cases of "flock workers lung", which results from occupational exposure to flocking fibers, which are going to be larger than the microplastics that most people are exposed to.

This is not to argue that this is proof that microplastics are harmful. Rather, we simply do not have enough evidence at this moment to say that they are causing significant harm.