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arrow-up1572arrow-down1message-squareMicroplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennialspleasestopasking@reddthat.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 个月前message-square138fedilink
minus-squareIceman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·3 个月前I wonder what our neurosises will be.
minus-squareTankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·3 个月前Depression, I would say. Same as how boomers are labeled as uncaring and sociopathic because of lead.
minus-squareScott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 个月前The depression is a natural byproduct of civilization. We’re not supposed to sit in concrete boxes and do meaningless tasks for survival. It makes us sad.
minus-squareP00ptart@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 个月前The sociopath part, I think, is likely because they grew up in the easiest time in history.
minus-squareAitolda@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 个月前As an Elder Millenial/Xennial I was lucky enough to make it to adulthood just before it got complicated. Unfortunately we’re talking months.
minus-squareconicalscientist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·3 个月前I think it’s more physiological. Since microplastics are ingested maybe it’s related to the rise in oral and rectal cancers.
minus-squareMalReynolds@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·3 个月前Yeah, but the nanoplastics get past the BBB (Blood Brain Barrier), what’s it, a plastic spoon in every human brain? Enough for some psych effects I guess. Oh, there’s 27 million tonnes of nanoplastics spread across just the top layer of the temperate to subtropical North Atlantic Shit’s pervasive and in your brain.
I wonder what our neurosises will be.
Depression, I would say. Same as how boomers are labeled as uncaring and sociopathic because of lead.
The depression is a natural byproduct of civilization. We’re not supposed to sit in concrete boxes and do meaningless tasks for survival. It makes us sad.
The sociopath part, I think, is likely because they grew up in the easiest time in history.
As an Elder Millenial/Xennial I was lucky enough to make it to adulthood just before it got complicated. Unfortunately we’re talking months.
Samesies.
I think it’s more physiological. Since microplastics are ingested maybe it’s related to the rise in oral and rectal cancers.
Yeah, but the nanoplastics get past the BBB (Blood Brain Barrier), what’s it, a plastic spoon in every human brain? Enough for some psych effects I guess. Oh, there’s 27 million tonnes of nanoplastics spread across just the top layer of the temperate to subtropical North Atlantic
Shit’s pervasive and in your brain.