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    14 days ago

    My non-professional guess is that microplastics will eventually sterilize us by disrupting our sperm’s ability to function properly. Only the wealthy can afford the medical procedures to bypass this.

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      914 days ago

      Maybe kids will need to be carefully sheltered from plastics until they are old enough to freeze their sperm.

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      714 days ago

      It’ll end up blocking vital neurotransmitters leaving us zombified and giving us an insatiable craving for brains

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      513 days ago

      'Twould be sweet irony and a blessing for the earth.

      Although the best method for removing it I’ve found is donating plasma (PFAs down 30% in 6 months of regular donation, the hope is nanoplastics are also removed…) so it might be the poors (in USA) and generous that get to have kids, so that’s nice…