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Microplastics found in every human semen sample tested in study (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 7 months ago (20 children)

I'd say at least it's not generational lead poisoning, but we'll probably end up with that too at this rate

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (15 children)

Approximately 40.5% of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point during their lifetimes.

this might be worse than generational lead poisoning

[–] SparrowRanjitScaur 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

There's no way microplastics are worse than heavy metal poisoning.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The scale of this though...

[–] SparrowRanjitScaur 8 points 7 months ago

We used to put lead in gasoline and emit lead fumes everywhere we drove. I still don't think microplastics can compare.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

worse is pretty subjective… is brain damage worse than brain cancer?
the full effects of this aren’t understood, of course… but my money is on: very very bad.

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