• Warehouse
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    2 days ago

    Even if the solution did work, now you have a doohicky full of microplastics. You can’t throw it out because that puts you at square one. Are we shoving it in the walls like razor blades in the 70s and hoping for a solution in the future?

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      Being buried in a landfill would be better than in the water supply.

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      2 days ago

      Would the co2 released from burning it be better or worse than the micro plastics?

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        It’s a bit of an apples to oranges comparison, right? Microplastics don’t cause any global warming, they’re just a direct health risk to people and to wildlife, to some poorly-understood degree.

        You really have to weigh one crisis against another, logically speaking. Unfortunately, it all gets jammed into “environmentalism” as one amorphous mass.