Life in plastic, it's fantastic. Plastic in life, it's... blithe?

I am not good at this, I have a spoon in my brain.

Honestly, it's not like policy in any imperial core country ever listens to scientists, so what else are they supposed to say? Buy a gun?

I promise you and cannot stress it enough how much easier personal responsibility is in a more sane society. If I can walk 2 minutes to a convenience store, order an onigiri for $1.50 and take a train to a park in 5 minutes for $1 it's just a different reality. There's no suffering as you lose weight. You're not beating the odds and recreating your life from scratch by playing hopscotch around all the temptations. You're actually choosing between an unhealthy, hyperpalletable palletable option and a more modest option. It's like the difference between a tofu based vegan option and them just picking the sausage out of the pasta.

If you could get your food in biodegradable casing instead of plastic with a button press you'd gladly press the button and never look back.

publications love doing that shit lol. the whole concept of a carbon footprint was invented to make individual people feel personally responsible for climate change even though corporations pollute 100x more.

its your fault for listening to to much Pop Music.

It seems that way to me. Also:

More than half of all plastic ever made has been made since 2002 and production is on track to double by 2040

We are also making more plastic, at a faster rate

Even if we stop making plastic, there's already massive amounts in the environment.

We're extremely doomed

Yeah, the silver lining here is that the reason we use plastic for everything (well, the reason beyond "oil stonks go brrrr") is that it doesn't really react to much of anything and is about as inert as a substance can be. And as terrible as it sounds, if there was any massively noticeable interaction between microplastics and our nervous system/bloodstream/neurons/cellular activity/etc we'd probably be dropping dead by the thousands everyday already, barring any future realization that this stuff fucks with our brains like lead exposure.

Speculating: the breakdown of existing environmental plastics into smaller, more absorbable pollutants? existing plastics more thoroughly polluting the food/water supplies?

A bent spoon IS my mind!

Oooohhhh!! That would have actually made so much more sense! Oopsie

The article recommends reducing single use plastics, and especially trying to avoid plastic around food (using glass for leftovers, not heating up food with plastic wrap on it, etc). Diet is the main source for these plastics.

We are still fucked though.

Of course we have one

Yea, when I saw the headline I immediately thought it was a scoop of plastic too.

Plastic makes me feel good 👻

deus ex plastica