This implies that microplastics were inevitable because of the industrial revolution instead of because of the oil industry destroying regulation for 100 years.
Our bad
Submitted 10 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to [deleted]
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optissima@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
According to Karl Marx (in Das Kapital ) the deregulation of industry for sake of profit is inevitable.
It’s cheaper to capture government than it is to follow regulations (which, in turn, are meant to serve the public, sometimes protect the public from industry)
Some nations are trying to make the capture process slow or difficult, but none have stopped it, and it only accelerates.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
But supporting their central point, Marx did propose a solution that would make microplastics evitable.
Emerald@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Plastic is made from petroleum. Petroleum is natural and good for you. I use a 1/4 tsp of petroleum in my water for flavor and I turned out fine.
optissima@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
No kidding my MiL said this about eating blackberries right off the highway during leaded gasoline times.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
“In 1804, Richard Trevithick developed the high pressure steam engine, unwhittingly dooming all of humanity.”
CubbyTustard@reddthat.com 10 months ago
ol’ Dick Thicc we called 'im
TheBat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Can someone smart clear this up for me? I thought distillation was the process of evaporating liquids then cooling them to form just the pure liquid on the other end, if this can happen in rain, could micro plastics find their way into distilled water too?
halfapage@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]Zwiebel@feddit.org 10 months ago
Raindrops always condensate around a little dust particle referred to as nuclei, afaik
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Evaporation ≠ distillation.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 10 months ago
Distillation doesn’t use filters either
Mubelotix@jlai.lu 10 months ago
It’s actually not. It still carries all kinds of stuff
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It could just be the wind that was hanging out I’m the same spot as the rain. Wind can carry stuff reeeeeaaaaaally far.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Plastic is just gray goo in slow motion.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It doesn’t reproduce though.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
It doesn’t have to if we keep producing new stuff that sinks into the environment and lingers there for eons.
Once we die out, it’s going to put a damper on all the biomes trying to recover from the Holocene extinction.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 months ago
It’s rainin’ [green plastic] men, Hallelujah!
FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Free filament for 3d printers
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 10 months ago
“Taste the rainbow” getting new meaning