• cor@slrpnk.net
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    Approximately 40.5% of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point during their lifetimes.

    this might be worse than generational lead poisoning

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      Nah, everybody dies of something. It’s also never ACTUALLY “old age”. It’s either cancer, or a cascading failure of organs caused by a chronic disease, or both.

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        a lot more people are getting cancer at younger ages than before

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          and is it like how there were “suddenly” more left handed or non-straight people? Sounds more like everyone jumping on headlines.

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            Maybe pumping chemicals and plastic into the food and water supply is actually really good for us. I bet everyone didn’t think about that.

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              You might be able to link the cited article to a decline in sperm count.

              Might. Saying, “yep, definitely why cancer” is simply and only a jump to conclusions.

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        Step 1: assessment of current situation as a bad thing

        Step 2: lemmy user defends bad thing for reasons, as one does

        Step 3: ablockalypse nao

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          I am not defending microplastics, but pointing out how there are baseless assumptions being made.

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          We used to put lead in gasoline and emit lead fumes everywhere we drove. I still don’t think microplastics can compare.

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        5 months ago

        worse is pretty subjective… is brain damage worse than brain cancer?
        the full effects of this aren’t understood, of course… but my money is on: very very bad.

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      Nah, generational lead poisoning gave us the Great Regression, taking our boomers and making them the way they are instead of being their parents, who flew to the moon and made the UN as a way to foster discission before jumping into war. There was hope in humanity’s actions before lead made myopic narcissists who were okay with poisoning the world.

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        lead was in everything way before the boomers… pipes, cups, plates, paint… people used to bite lead fishing weights….

        lead led to the downfall of rome….

        the generations before the boomers were plenty good at poisoning the earth…. and many boomers did want to stop it and started the whole hippie thing, earth day, and civil right….

        it’s all so much more complex than that….

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          It was leaded gasoline that made lead ubiquitous. Previously folks could minimize the exposure with precaution but by 1930 it was inescapable. No longer limited to physical proximity, lead fumes ensured it was in the air and rain put it in the water.