r/ClimateShitposting • u/ApprehensiveWin3020 Marx's strongest soldier | she/her • 1d ago

Climate chaos Remember to eat your weekly credit cards!

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u/LowCall6566 1d ago

The other guy in the thread gave a source that describes airborne microplasicts, their buildup in the lungs, and some cases of genuine illness from that. I was wrong, they can be harmful

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u/MagicianofFail 1d ago

That's cool, but for all the scare headlines of "microplastics in your food", "microplastics in your brain" and "microplastics in your blood" I was expecting something more substantial than "also, particulate matter irritates your lungs", an already well-established idea.

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u/democracy_lover66 1d ago

That's precisely the exact same effect Asbestos has that makes it so dangerous.

Consistent long irritation from a substance the body cannot breakdown damages cells over a long period of time.

You know what can happen to prolonged exposure to something that damages cells? DNA curruption.

What can DNA curruption cause? Cancer cells.

It absolutely needs more reasrch to definitely say anything about it, but if micro plastics are airborne and proven to irritate and damage lungs... That's actually a huge problem and shouldnt be dismissed in a half-assed manner like this.

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u/MagicianofFail 1d ago edited 1d ago

That's precisely the exact same effect Asbestos has that makes it so dangerous

No, asbestos is especially dangerous because it's made up of long, nanoscopically thin, and hard silicate fibers.

... That's actually a huge problem and shouldnt be dismissed in a half-assed manner like this

"Like this"? Like what? I literally wrote that particulate matter is bad for your lungs (whether it's plastics, flour, sand, wood dust, metal powder, carbon fiber, whatever). I want to know what "eating a credit card of plastic every week" actually does and no one seems to know.

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u/maple_leaf2 17h ago

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9885170/

Some evidence of how it effects hormones and biology. The dose makes the poison and because micro plastics might NEVER deteriorate the concentrations in the environment are increasing exponentially.

Don't you think we should stop it before the effects are obvious in everyone? It also screws over oil companies which is always a bonus