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Microplastics found in every human semen sample tested in study (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Espiritdescali to c/futurology

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[–] SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

There's no way microplastics are worse than heavy metal poisoning.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The scale of this though...

[–] SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

We used to put lead in gasoline and emit lead fumes everywhere we drove. I still don't think microplastics can compare.

[–] cor@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago

worse is pretty subjective… is brain damage worse than brain cancer?
the full effects of this aren’t understood, of course… but my money is on: very very bad.