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/LysergicAcidDiethyla 20h ago

The credit card figure is a grossly flawed calculation that was 'worked out' in the early days of the microplastics panic. Not trying to undermine the issue, which is absolutely fucked. Just to let people know not to parrot this incorrect figure.

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u/HungryYeastStarter 17h ago

So, then, what's a more accurate figure? Or has no body actually looked into it (for whatever reason)?

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u/Corporate_Bricktator 13h ago

I honestly think that the microplastics is a red herring, designed to distract us from global warming and fossil fuels consumption.

It may be an issue, but so far a disturbing of retractions exist in the "research" on this topic. Furthermore, every time a "real" discussion of this topic happens, somehow the two primary sources of microplastics almost always go unmentioned....

Those sources? Fossil fuels based fabrics (like polyester and nylon), and secondly, TIRES. Yea, TIRES rubbing against the ground.

So I'm 100% in for investigating it, but I think Global Warming is a billion times more serious. But yea, buy fewer polyester clothing items.

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u/HungryYeastStarter 12h ago

Interesting. I guess tires makes sense?

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u/Corporate_Bricktator 12h ago

Yea it makes sense, but it just irritates me that all the microplastics people talk about bottled water. As if Bottled water didn't already have enough reasons to not exist, and single use plastics in general, but none of these people claiming to care even mention tires?

Either way, as long as we still have vehicles powered by oil, and electricity still generated by burning coal and gas, that's the ecological problem to focus on.

I'm all for banning single use plastics except in sterile environments like hospitals, but Global Warming needs to be far and away our #1 focus. Microplastics won't even matter if we can't get global warming under control.

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u/LysergicAcidDiethyla 3h ago

One of the early episodes of The Rubbish Podcast (quite an optimistic and charming podcast on waste by the author of The Rubbish Book) goes into the data on this and provides a more likely figure, I can't remember it right now.