@BE : "Microplastics? Balls."
(I'm surprised to not see https://academic.oup.com/toxsci/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/toxsci/kfae060/7673133 on the zeroes explore-news page.)
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I was thinking about this earlier today, and you know what I find to be the most ironic part of our modern, consumerist society?
We live in a throw away society. Yet, we created two of the most long lasting pollutants in history in PFAs and microplastics. Bioaccumulation of long lasting pollutants sucks.
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I feel you!
Some Indigenous cultures avoid the weird preoccupation with permanence. Totem poles are famously expected to fall and rot and return to the earth, and so on.
Denying death and decomposition can be understood as denying life.
What machine breaks first? The machine that isn't maintained, because it's expected to keep working indefinitely. This applies to political machinery as much as physical.
What extraordinary hubris, to believe we should make disposable junk out of materials that outlast human lifetimes.