i’m leaning towards a Children of Men scenario
My guess is the effects will largely be related to endocrine disruption and increased oxidative stress (which we have seen in fish exposed to microplastics). Plastic tends to “adsorb” pollutants, which are then released into the body on ingestion, and are full of toxic additives. While plastic is fairly nonreactive, microplastics have a huge surface area:volume ratio, which means a much, much higher proportion of the plastic is in contact with our tissues/system/whatever.
So yeah, hormonal stuff plus damage to kidneys/liver would be my first guess, no doubt plus loads of other lovely things
why wonder what plastics may or may not do when you can observe the effects of coronavirus making people stupider in real time
Gonna make the leaded gas years look like the Renaissance.
inflammation. of muscles and brains, making us stronger, smarter, and faster than god ever intended.
the throne is ours!
Plastic is not very biologically active (that’s like half the reason we use so much of it) so I’d guess whatever effects it has are very mechanical things like impaired breathing or higher risk of blood clots/strokes.
Plastic itself, sure. But it happily, greedily adsorbs pollutants (that is, picks them up on its surface where they can be released into whatever consumes them) and is full of additives like plasticisers and so on which have a variety of toxic effects, particularly around increased oxidative stress and endocrine disruption. The physical presence of the plastic inside our bodies is absolutely a problem but they do also poison us.
Also when you have microplastics you have an enormous surface area:volume ratio so the reactivity is massively increased.
But a spoon worth of it is already in our brains and this amount is set to rise. Even if it just mechanically acts on the brain, that might still alter behavior.
give people autism @Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net
look into this
Sorry, best I can do is outlaw flu shots.
Theyll make us more malleable
and then kill us of cancerMy understanding is plastics affect hormones. So I guess we all become androgynous and intersex.
Cancer, to begin with.
Come on Barbie let’s go party
Trans Inshallah
Make us waterproof
I don’t remember.
it’s making them stupider
one benefit is i can purchase things from Amazon using only my mind
