So people breathe dust and some gets stuck in their lungs. Might have been plastic, or wood, or other particles.
They've been pushing this "Microplastic" shit for years. SO what? The plastic is pretty inert. It's not like asbestos or fiberglass fibers that cause cancers.
This is a bullshit article, based on junk science. The quantity found was probably microscopic. As in you'd need a microscope to even find the total amount of plastic in anyone's lungs. Like less than one speck of what is shown in the misleading picture. {cf.: Lying With Pictures}
You have dust and sand in your lungs too. Are we gonna ban dirt next?
This is nonsense from the same people that told you CO2 and cow farts were going to melt the polar ice cap and drown the planet. By 2007. Right after nuclear winter. And global famine from overpopulation.
At least when Orson Welles played this game in 1939, he made a pretty good fake radio broadcast out of it.
Yep. And that broadcast told people it was just a story. More importantly these same junk heads claimed there was mass panic from the War of the Worlds when there was not for very same motivation. A power grab.
Just think, the Earth allowed us to be created so we could invent plastic for it. Now it is using plastic to get rid of us, a pesky troublesome species.
I think it was George Carlin that proposed that very thing. His hypothesis was that as soon as the universe had enough plastic, it would get rid of us.
Many plastics are endocrine disrupters, which interfere with the hormones that determine sexual expression. BPA (Bisphenol A), which was banned in food packaging some years ago, is just one of them. Other plastics, with similar effects, are still in widespread use.
Plastics have been in wide-spread use for only a couple of generations. Humans are now exposed to something which they've never been exposed to in their evolutionary history,and the result is not good.
Personally I believe that plastic contamination is what's causing the whole trans thing: endocrine disrupters interfering with hormones that determine sexual expression.
I agree with Don. I have held this opinion for a few years now. Correlation may not be causation, but it sure as hell makes you wonder about it and take a longer look.
Incorrect. It is NOT the plastics that are endocrine disruptors, but some of the "plasticizers" that are often incorporated into the plastics to give them more useful properties.
This is why they don't recommend microwaving plastics. It helps leach out the plasticizers into the food. It is also why you see some plastic items sold advertized as pthalate-free, e.g., BPA-free. Sometimes a more natural plasticizer is used instead, like epoxidized soybean oil. Over time, plastics in the environment lose those plasticizers, as they leach out naturally. And even faster as the plastic breaks down into smaller particles in the environment. The odds are any "microplastics" found in peoples' lungs have lost most of those plasticizers, and are relatively chemically inert.
Humans have always ended up with microparticles in their lungs. Certain particle sizes are easily inhaled, but not exhaled and stay in the lungs. Anything inert will stay there indefinitely. Dusts, both from rock or organic matter. My mother, growing up in Pittsburgh in the Great Depression era, showed coal and soot particles in her lungs on chest x-rays her entire adult life.
Some organic particles can be broken down and removed naturally, though the rate at which this happens is limited and the removal mechanisms can be overwhelmed.
Another "crisis" put out there like Glowbull Wormening to stampede the sheep against petroleum-based products and economy. Everyone is gonna die someday, 99.9999999999999+% will NOT be due to "micro-plastic."
I think a great deal of our health problems are caused by soy. It is in EVERYTHING. i.e. Soy is the 3rd leading ingredient in Fruity Pebbles. Soy increases Estrogen...hence the lgbt, etc. Mayonnaise is hydrolyzed soy oil. Soy is in probably 95% of American bread. Soy has been genetically engineered to resist glyphosate (weed killer).
Microplastics are so last century. What we might want to consider is the advent of nano-particles. And, take a guess which country has taken a lead in nano-particle research? Begins with a "C".
Hmm, could be that there are micro particles because they have changed the plastic formulations to make them break down in sunlight? The tarps, plastic sheeting, shopping bags, buckets, etc, pretty much everything in my driveway, break down now into tiny tiny pieces, because plastics in the outdoors are bad m'kay.
Macro plastics in the waste stream = bad, because the third world just throws that stuff on the ground, so make them break down into micro plastics... except now the resulting dust gets into peoples' lungs and stays there.
I bet it's still not as bad as the coal byproducts in the air in Victorian cities, or the industrial pollution in the air in modern China or India...
Screw microplastics. I want MACROPLASTICS! *Inhales an entire Poland Spring bottle, cap,water and all.*
Seriously, I work around diesel engines, massive quantities of oil and chemicals, chew on pens and my parents growing up were smokers. I do woodwork on the side. Half my life, every time I blow my nose it looks like a Rorschach blot. Putting on that stupid mask failed to ever trap anything in the mask except for bad breath and cold-weather runny nose snot, and the masks always smell of...mask smell, when new. Smells being airborn chemicals, of course we're breathing in plastics. Makes you not want to think very deeply when you smell someone fart, though.
Wear Your Mask!
ReplyDeleteTrust The Science!
(cough cough choooughhh! Ahh. Heehh. Must'a caught a lil' bug. Cough.)
So people breathe dust and some gets stuck in their lungs.
ReplyDeleteMight have been plastic, or wood, or other particles.
They've been pushing this "Microplastic" shit for years. SO what? The plastic is pretty inert. It's not like asbestos or fiberglass fibers that cause cancers.
^ What B said.
DeleteThis is a bullshit article, based on junk science.
The quantity found was probably microscopic. As in you'd need a microscope to even find the total amount of plastic in anyone's lungs. Like less than one speck of what is shown in the misleading picture.
{cf.: Lying With Pictures}
You have dust and sand in your lungs too.
Are we gonna ban dirt next?
This is nonsense from the same people that told you CO2 and cow farts were going to melt the polar ice cap and drown the planet. By 2007.
Right after nuclear winter.
And global famine from overpopulation.
At least when Orson Welles played this game in 1939, he made a pretty good fake radio broadcast out of it.
Yep. And that broadcast told people it was just a story. More importantly these same junk heads claimed there was mass panic from the War of the Worlds when there was not for very same motivation. A power grab.
DeleteJust think, the Earth allowed us to be created so we could invent plastic for it. Now it is using plastic to get rid of us, a pesky troublesome species.
ReplyDeleteI think it was George Carlin that proposed that very thing. His hypothesis was that as soon as the universe had enough plastic, it would get rid of us.
DeleteIt was. It's from his 'endangered species' or 'saving the planet' video, which I play every Earth Day.
DeleteMany plastics are endocrine disrupters, which interfere with the hormones that determine sexual expression. BPA (Bisphenol A), which was banned in food packaging some years ago, is just one of them. Other plastics, with similar effects, are still in widespread use.
ReplyDeletewww.salon.com/2022/01/16/bpa-plastics-harmful/
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211205111707.htm
Plastics have been in wide-spread use for only a couple of generations. Humans are now exposed to something which they've never been exposed to in their evolutionary history,and the result is not good.
Personally I believe that plastic contamination is what's causing the whole trans thing: endocrine disrupters interfering with hormones that determine sexual expression.
- Don in Oregon
THIS.
DeleteI agree with Don. I have held this opinion for a few years now. Correlation may not be causation, but it sure as hell makes you wonder about it and take a longer look.
DeleteIncorrect. It is NOT the plastics that are endocrine disruptors, but some of the "plasticizers" that are often incorporated into the plastics to give them more useful properties.
DeleteThis is why they don't recommend microwaving plastics. It helps leach out the plasticizers into the food. It is also why you see some plastic items sold advertized as pthalate-free, e.g., BPA-free. Sometimes a more natural plasticizer is used instead, like epoxidized soybean oil. Over time, plastics in the environment lose those plasticizers, as they leach out naturally. And even faster as the plastic breaks down into smaller particles in the environment. The odds are any "microplastics" found in peoples' lungs have lost most of those plasticizers, and are relatively chemically inert.
Humans have always ended up with microparticles in their lungs. Certain particle sizes are easily inhaled, but not exhaled and stay in the lungs. Anything inert will stay there indefinitely. Dusts, both from rock or organic matter. My mother, growing up in Pittsburgh in the Great Depression era, showed coal and soot particles in her lungs on chest x-rays her entire adult life.
Some organic particles can be broken down and removed naturally, though the rate at which this happens is limited and the removal mechanisms can be overwhelmed.
Bull Sheet. I can hear and read it now like the rest here. Put on your mask.
ReplyDeleteAnother "crisis" put out there like Glowbull Wormening to stampede the sheep against petroleum-based products and economy. Everyone is gonna die someday, 99.9999999999999+% will NOT be due to "micro-plastic."
ReplyDeleteI think a great deal of our health problems are caused by soy. It is in EVERYTHING. i.e. Soy is the 3rd leading ingredient in Fruity Pebbles. Soy increases Estrogen...hence the lgbt, etc. Mayonnaise is hydrolyzed soy oil. Soy is in probably 95% of American bread. Soy has been genetically engineered to resist glyphosate (weed killer).
ReplyDeleteSoy is also an estrogen generator, so I've heard..
DeleteThe jabs, the masks, the lockdowns.....the list of things that have killed millions that are also not allowed to be mentioned, is growing every day...
ReplyDeleteMicroplastics are so last century. What we might want to consider is the advent of nano-particles. And, take a guess which country has taken a lead in nano-particle research? Begins with a "C".
ReplyDeleteAnd most of that research began here. The Chinks are not innovators
DeleteI have a LOT of questions, and I don't think I'll ever get answers! Grrr...
ReplyDeletethe photo of particles on the end of a finger ARE NOT MICRO plastics.
ReplyDeleteHmm, could be that there are micro particles because they have changed the plastic formulations to make them break down in sunlight? The tarps, plastic sheeting, shopping bags, buckets, etc, pretty much everything in my driveway, break down now into tiny tiny pieces, because plastics in the outdoors are bad m'kay.
ReplyDeleteMacro plastics in the waste stream = bad, because the third world just throws that stuff on the ground, so make them break down into micro plastics... except now the resulting dust gets into peoples' lungs and stays there.
I bet it's still not as bad as the coal byproducts in the air in Victorian cities, or the industrial pollution in the air in modern China or India...
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ReplyDeleteScrew microplastics. I want MACROPLASTICS! *Inhales an entire Poland Spring bottle, cap,water and all.*
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I work around diesel engines, massive quantities of oil and chemicals, chew on pens and my parents growing up were smokers. I do woodwork on the side. Half my life, every time I blow my nose it looks like a Rorschach blot. Putting on that stupid mask failed to ever trap anything in the mask except for bad breath and cold-weather runny nose snot, and the masks always smell of...mask smell, when new. Smells being airborn chemicals, of course we're breathing in plastics.
Makes you not want to think very deeply when you smell someone fart, though.
Just passed a half cup of coffee through my sinuses. That was great!
DeleteMicroplastics are the result of Microcephalic science.
ReplyDeleteIt's the polypropylene varient of covid
ReplyDeleteIt's the polypropylene varient of covid
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