pleasestopasking@reddthat.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agoMicroplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennialsmessage-squaremessage-square73fedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down11
arrow-up151arrow-down1message-squareMicroplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennialspleasestopasking@reddthat.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square73fedilink
minus-squareIceman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoI wonder what our neurosises will be.
minus-squareTankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoDepression, I would say. Same as how boomers are labeled as uncaring and sociopathic because of lead.
minus-squareconicalscientist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoI think it’s more physiological. Since microplastics are ingested maybe it’s related to the rise in oral and rectal cancers.
minus-squareMalReynolds@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoYeah, but the nanoplastics get past the BBB (Blood Brain Barrier), what’s it, a plastic spoon in every human brain? Enough for some psych effects I guess. Oh, there’s 27 million tonnes of nanoplastics spread across just the top layer of the temperate to subtropical North Atlantic Shit’s pervasive and in your brain.
I wonder what our neurosises will be.
Depression, I would say. Same as how boomers are labeled as uncaring and sociopathic because of lead.
I think it’s more physiological. Since microplastics are ingested maybe it’s related to the rise in oral and rectal cancers.
Yeah, but the nanoplastics get past the BBB (Blood Brain Barrier), what’s it, a plastic spoon in every human brain? Enough for some psych effects I guess. Oh, there’s 27 million tonnes of nanoplastics spread across just the top layer of the temperate to subtropical North Atlantic
Shit’s pervasive and in your brain.