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Microplastics Linked to Heart Attack, Stroke and Death (www.scientificamerican.com)

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[–] Nudding 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's not how this works lol. We exploit a resource until we either run out of it or find a more easily exploitable resource. This will continue until we kill enough of ourselves that we can't maintain plastic production.

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[–] hikaru755 3 points 10 months ago

If that were true, we'd still have asbestos in everything. Regulation works.

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