The highest was over 4000. Bits of plastic. Per square fucking metre. We are fucked dude.
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Somehow this fucks me up less than learning that humans consume about a credit card worth of micro plastics per week (5g)
What if the beach, but plastic. Coastal erosion solved!
Still blows my mind that they found bits of microplastics on the Arctic too. They are literally enveloping the planet.
There are microplastics in the deepest parts of the Earth and at its highest points. You could take a glass of seawater from anywhere on Earth and it’d be full of the same microplastics. It’s everywhere inside our bodies, too. It causes brain damage in fish.
Honestly the biggest sign that life on earth is almost over. There’s nothing we can economically do to remove the plastic, and we are not only not fixing the issue, we’re accelerating it.
This is what doomer-fies me more than anything. Like before the pandemic, west coast cities were triumphalist that they banned plastic fkn straws. Now we have 9 billion disposable masks making their way to the landfills / oceans. Nobody cares. At the grocery store, every individual donut is put in its own hard plastic container.
I see people like “We’re going to emerge from this pandemic and it will be a love fest!” No, we’re going to emerge into a brutal police / surveillance state on the eve of climate annihilation.
