this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2024
45 points (97.9% liked)
Progressive Politics
1209 readers
921 users here now
Welcome to Progressive Politics! A place for news updates and political discussion from a left perspective. Conservatives and centrists are welcome just try and keep it civil :)
(Sidebar still a work in progress post recommendations if you have them such as reading lists)
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The typical human has the same amount of plastic in their brain as there is in a credit card as a result of the relatively newly ubiquitous presence of plastic nanoparticles in our environment.
Frankly I'd be shocked if jamming a credit card into a human brain wouldn't cause some measurable difference to how the brain operates.
Edit: I guess the specific reference of a credit card is still undergoing peer review! There are many published papers showing polystyrene in the frontal cortex, though.
That is not true (link is in Dutch, here it is Google translated)
That link says we don't EAT that much plastic per week.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/21/microplastics-brain-pollution-health
This is saying that our brains are at this point 0.5% plastic by weight.
That is figuratively no, the amount. I do think microplastics are probably the new lead and asbestos. Future generations will be like: “WTF, how did they ignore that”.
I've heard this too, but I have only seen news articles about this...are there any other sources that confirm this, say, like a research paper or a fact-check group?