So what, you might ask—it’s just plastic! After all, if you accidentally swallow a shirt button, it’ll pass straight through you, right? But when it’s broken down into microscopic fibers, spherules, and shards, it behaves very differently. These particles leach out toxic chemicals, including carcinogens. Their rough surfaces snag other toxins and microbes, transporting them to new environments and into bodies.
But we know two things for sure: Microplastics do cause harm at high enough concentrations, and concentrations will keep rising for a long, long time. If we stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, we’d stop adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere at once, but if we stopped making plastic tomorrow, the existing plastic in our buildings, appliances, furniture, cars, clothes, toys, tools, and trash would keep breaking down and adding to the indestructible, planetwide microplastic mush.
mrMattSimon If we stop taking fossil fuels from the ground we also stop making plastics, so let’s just do that.
mrMattSimon How much plastic did you waste writing this book?
mrMattSimon This should be talked about more
mrMattSimon Very true. Listen to this audiobook
mrMattSimon A guess: Kill as many humans as possible?
mrMattSimon Agreed! This is a WORLD crisis that is doing more damage than all cancers, convid combined but we are silent on it. The birth deformities, ecological disaster is insane!
mrMattSimon I loved the reading progress bar in this article, I hope to see it more often.
mrMattSimon This thing might be the next big environmental crisis… Let’s paywall this (maybe) important information so much of humanity doesn’t have access to it!
mrMattSimon Shred everything plastic in your house into a fine dust, and consume with water once a day for a month. A fine protective plastic lining will develop around the inside of your gastrointestinal system that will prevent future harm from microplastics.
mrMattSimon The ONLY way to survive this CRISIS is by BUYING products including a book and a subscription to our website so you can read the article!! It’s the ONLY way!!
mrMattSimon Oh micro plastics like what's in masks & covid tests? 🤔
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