“Each year, companies around the world produce nearly 460 million metric tons of plastic.” Plastic has the potential to quickly wipe out humanity and most complex life on Earth. scitechdaily.com/concerning-f... - ThreadSky

race2extinct.bsky.social • 185 days ago

“Each year, companies around the world produce nearly 460 million metric tons of plastic.”

Plastic has the potential to quickly wipe out humanity and most complex life on Earth.

https://scitechdaily.com/concerning-findings-microplastics-in-the-air-could-be-causing-cancer/

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major-bloodnok.bsky.social•184 days ago

The viciously toxic soup we humans have created has a complicated, long and varied ingredient list. I only know of a few items, e.g. phthalates, PFAS etc. I think all this horrific man made shit will decimate life, as we know it, in a long-drawn-out way. How it will play out, no one really knows.

race2extinct.bsky.social•184 days ago

I suspect it will be relatively quick. Everything we are doing is increasing nearly exponentially.

cjtanman.bsky.social•185 days ago

"A major source of plastic in the air is driving". Tackling microplastics requires a massive reduction in car use including EVs. We need massive incentives to stop people using cars. I wish I could say it will happen.

race2extinct.bsky.social•185 days ago

There is a whole host of things I wish I could say.

rupe.bsky.social•184 days ago

Microplastic is the 'meteor dust' that will mark the 6th mass extinction in the future fossil record.

doomrick.bsky.social•185 days ago

If only we had the luxury of ghg emissions being the only extinction level threat we've caused.

race2extinct.bsky.social•185 days ago

We’ve diversified!

doomrick.bsky.social•185 days ago

That we have 😵‍💫

ourfuturefyi.bsky.social•185 days ago

Used to be the notion that only the cockroaches would survive a nuclear WWIII... now I think it may be just cows and plastic left to inherit the earth...

race2extinct.bsky.social•185 days ago

Cows won’t make it any longer than humans. Plastics it is.

ourfuturefyi.bsky.social•185 days ago

PFAS will likely win the 'Supreme chemical of the Anthropocene' award for longevity... what a funny place it will be when the aliens turn up in 10,000 years and start analyzing the place... remnants of buildings, some strange mutant life forms, what speculating their scientists will get to do...

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