• Hestia [comrade/them, she/her]
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    3 months ago

    if it's been happening since WW2 why are people worrying about it now?

    It took a while for the negative health consequences to be fully researched, and for the plastic industry to infiltrate every aspect of our life as much as it has.

    And you can bet your ass the plastic industry does their best to suppress any research papers that would make people skeptical of their product, just like the Oil Industry hid all the negative consequences of burning through millenniums worth of oil

        • Black_Mald_Futures [any]
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          3 months ago

          It's more like plastic production is a byproduct of oil production, like, it literally came about from oil companies looking for ways to profit from their waste, the two are intrinsically linked

          • Hestia [comrade/them, she/her]
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            3 months ago

            I know. Similar to how floride was originally chemical waste from Nuclear programs and now they're putting it in our drinking water.