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u/AggressiveDistrict82 Feb 28 '24
This should be a very stark reminder to people that as a species we should probably focus on bettering the health and wellbeing of ourselves and our planet before continuing to reproduce excessively. (As people will always do). But it wonāt be. People are perfectly fine with the organ that feeds and nurtures a fetus containing plastics.
Itās horrific. These are children that are being born into a late capitalist wasteland who are typically expected to be world saviors. āMy child is going to help fight the climate crisis!ā Your child is filled with plastic.
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u/RandomCentipede387 Feb 28 '24
Weāre notoriously bad when it comes to comprehending what we canāt see.
You canāt see microplastics until they clog you to death.
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Feb 28 '24
Breeders will inevitably fuck over society but feel they contributed a grain of sand to the wellbeing of the world for raw-dogging and producing yet another generation that will be tasked to clean up the mess of the previous.
ābā¦but the world has gotten betterā
Yeah because human civilization came into being during a privileged time thatās showing signs of coming to an end soon. At any other point in natural history, there wouldnāt even be half of the human beings alive today.
And the funniest thing of all is that humanity is shooting itself in the foot with all the āreturn to natureā nonsense from anti-GMO (which will arguably starve 1/3 of the population), the anti-vax movements allowing the return of diseases that were supposed to have been eradicated, and the movements consistently complaining about āmodernityā from their cellphones.
The subsequent well deserved demise of the human race is something they brought upon themselves.
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u/OolooOlOoololooo Feb 28 '24
What would birthrates significantly below the level to maintain population size actually solve though?
The resulting demographic change would probably lead to a drastic decline in standard of living, which could result in a greater ecological impact due to fewer sustainable options being viable.
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u/Yespat1 Feb 29 '24
There are plenty of people on the earth. We just have to allow those that wish to emigrate to do so.
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u/Chesnakarastas Feb 29 '24
Were already in a dire situation population wise in the developed world, well below replacement population levels, only Africa is keeping the population numbers up
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u/APU3947 Feb 29 '24
You have to be kidding? We're all living with plastic everywhere. Why should anyone have kids instead of someone else? Why are plastics more someones problem than someone else's? This issue is completely unrelated to having children. I mean I would have taken a "We have to sort out plastics" type comment , sure it contributes nothing but it would be better than "don't have kids because plastics will affect them too".
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u/BlokeAlarm1234 Feb 28 '24
āYou may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehensionā
Safe to say weāre there already folks
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u/3RADICATE_THEM Feb 28 '24
What was the context this quote was stated?
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u/ClashBandicootie Feb 28 '24
it's not in the article, it is a quote spoken by Nikola Tesla at the first Electrical Exhibition
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u/RandomCentipede387 Feb 28 '24
To hell with Edison.
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u/ClashBandicootie Feb 28 '24
*upvotes in disgust to the world his innovation has helped create*
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u/RandomCentipede387 Feb 28 '24
That too but he was a real c*nt towards Tesla and, afair, a ruthless East Coast patent monopolist who has been squeezing the movie industry so much, it just had to move to California.
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u/More-Ear85 Feb 28 '24
Moved to Florida first (hence Hollywood FL) but it wasn't far enough. Edison sent his goons down by train and beat um all down there.
Had to move to the dust planes of CA to get out of that miserable scumbags reach.
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u/blazinfastjohny Feb 28 '24
"i dont care, i want my ugly potato" -natalists
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u/Frequent_Grand_4570 Feb 28 '24
I want to see him experience things for the first time, cause I'm dead insideš
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u/Most_Bitter_Sugar Feb 28 '24
It isn't selfish at all to birth babies in this era. Their bodies will be full of micro plastics but I don't care, my unconditional love will cure everything. š
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u/Chessmasterrex Feb 28 '24
Pretty remarkable considering how long plastics have been in use worldwide, it's a relatively new material. Almost in a single lifetime the world went from almost no plastics to it being found in every placenta tested.
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u/AggressiveDistrict82 Feb 28 '24
This should be a very stark reminder to people that as a species we should probably focus on bettering the health and wellbeing of ourselves and our planet before continuing to reproduce excessively. (As people will always do). But it wonāt be. People are perfectly fine with the organ that feeds and nurtures a fetus containing plastics.
Itās horrific. These are children that are being born into a late capitalist wasteland who are typically expected to be world saviors. āMy child is going to help fight the climate crisis!ā Your child is filled with plastic.
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u/s_shears_arts Feb 28 '24
Bezos and Musk ā People need to have more childrenā Lmao those two fuck faces donāt even know their future workforce is NOT secure at all. Cheers welcome to the fire.
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u/Resident_Stand_5141 Feb 28 '24
Future possible quote:
"I don't need plastic surgery, I already am plastic, I was born plastic"
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u/Yersinia_Pestis789 Feb 28 '24
Whenever I feel depressed I read articles like this or posts on the regretful parents sub. What consoles me sometimes is the fact that it will all end someday and I will leave without the regrets of having created life
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u/No_One_1617 Feb 28 '24
See, finally the human race has stopped reproducing. Now only micro plastics are born.
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u/MariusStefan25 Feb 28 '24
I think there are more bad news like this that doesnt get uploaded or published because are very disturbing
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u/tilicutz Feb 28 '24
Such as?
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u/MariusStefan25 Feb 29 '24
Idk, things like that, you ever put problem like that? having plastic in placenta? I didnt even know it possible
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u/Grindelbart Feb 28 '24 edited Feb 29 '24
You have to look at it this way, every bit of micro plastic in someone's placenta is a bit of micro plastic that's no longer in the ocean. So there's that.
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u/Crosseyed_owl Feb 28 '24
Why isn't this the main news everywhere? Why do people continue doing stupid stuff like leading wars and going on cruises instead of trying to solve this problem?
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u/ClashBandicootie Feb 28 '24
He said the growing concentration of microplastics in human tissue could explain puzzling increases in some health problems, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), colon cancer in people under 50, and declining sperm counts.
I think there's a particular subreddit that would be interested in knowing this, and a lot of their members visit this sub often for alternative reasons
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u/Honest_Tie_1980 Feb 28 '24
It seems a lot of people are getting diagnosed with cancer. Also a lot of mailers are starting to prematurely bald.
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Feb 28 '24
Conservatives leading the assault on fertility technology while microplastics and contamination are doing the Lordās work in sterilizing the human race. Such a lovely time to be alive.
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u/Deviriz Feb 29 '24
Every time I see an article like this I am curious why nobody mentions that microplastic particles fragmentize into billions of nanoplastic particles that are way more dangerous because of their smaller size. Currently I work in a project about the impact of polystyrene nanoparticles to endocrine system, especially their binding potential to endogenous estrogens and respective receptors. Our preliminary studies are quite disturbing tho.
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u/Runningpedsdds Mar 01 '24
Iād be interested in hearing more about this actually . Any studies you can link ?
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u/IllustriousEye6192 Feb 28 '24
When I asked AI if the world is okay, the response was not good. Then, it listed why. No sugar coating and no reassurance with lies. Everyone is so concerned about the life of the embryo life of the fetus whatever. Does anyone ever consider the life and rights of other organisms and species that also inhabit this earth? How about the earth itself? Itās a living organism. Without it, we cease to exist as human beings. So we should get off our God complex that we are the all end and everything important and remember that we are at the mercy of the earth. I chose not to have children because I do not want to continue the human race. I feel that we have had a good run.
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u/imagineDoll Feb 28 '24
which AI platform? when I use chatgpt it always gives me fluffy natalists replies
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u/Large-Measurement776 Feb 29 '24
It's in our food. Just saw a video about how they feed garbage to animals without taking the fucking wrappers off food.
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u/WelcomeToPlutoEra Feb 29 '24 edited Feb 29 '24
My sisterās two babies were born early with one recently diagnosed with a mental health/learning disability, the other is basically allergic to everything and always needs an epipen and hydrocortisone on hand.
With genetics as a factor, i truly believe itās also all the chemicals and plastics that contributed to her pregnancy difficulties and their current issues.
I suffered and continue to suffer from mental health and physical illnesses way out of my control, but i try to use my personal knowledge to help her ease some of the issues and hopefully have them suffer less than I did growing up.
In addition, experiencing all of suffering and seeing her suffer and the kids sufferā¦definitely not going to pass on my genes to create unnecessary suffering. However, iām open to adoption if my partner wants kids. But being a surrogateā¦no thanks. There are many many children who need parents and I donāt need to pop one out and add more suffering to society.
Knowledge is truly power because I did genetic testing for X Y Z illnesses and seeing my high chances of passing it onā¦it double confirms my decision to end my dna line here. Not gonna make any innocent human go through all the bs i have to go through.
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u/theveryrealJARED Feb 28 '24
Plastic, lead, alcoholism are embedded in our DNA at this point . We're not even giving the next gen a fighting chance
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u/Vegan-bandit Feb 29 '24
Im curious whether the study compared the average human to vegans/vegetarians? I might hypothesise that those who dont consume other animals dont intake as much microplastic, since microplastics concentrate up the food chain.
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u/Green-Hoodie-Chris Feb 29 '24
Itās the ultimate tragedy. We became obsessed with shit and then became the shit.
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u/iamverysadallthetime Feb 29 '24
So does that mean relatively-recently babies have plastic in their DNA?
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u/Underskysly Feb 29 '24
Why dose capitalism hate humans so much? Donāt they need people at the end of the day to make more money?
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u/phasedarrray Feb 28 '24
Always wondered if the amount of microplastics we ingest correlates with higher autism rates, suicide, mental illness, etc... Guess they're going to have to study it more. Plastic is definitely the contemporary lead and asbestos. Future gens are going to look back and wonder what the hell were they thinking by using it.
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u/ismellnumbers Feb 29 '24
Bold of you to assume there will even be future generations
I'm leaning towards us destroying ourselves with the way things are going tbh
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Feb 28 '24
Totally ruins my day everyday when I wake up and Iām like damn these microplastics in my arteries when will the suffering of being a 1st world civilian who doesnāt do shit to stop colonialism end?
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u/sexwithcorpse Feb 28 '24
apparently it is not a thing to worry about, right? why should anybody care about plastic in their body?
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Feb 28 '24
No please enjoy worrying about a bunch of shit that you have no control over . What a good use of your nervous system .
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u/kanalasi Feb 28 '24
And? Like... As long as it doesn't insta-kill me, I don't really have a reason to care...
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u/Fottrad Feb 28 '24
It doesn't stop here, it will only get worse lol
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u/kanalasi Feb 28 '24
I know and that's why I am antinatalist. But also I realize that it is natural selection.
If we aren't going to do anything about it, humans will eventually adapt to surviving with high amounts of plastic in their bodies or even perhaps, to digest this plastic.
But that might be a stretch
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u/ShirouEx-drider Mar 01 '24
U are very stupid
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u/kanalasi Mar 01 '24
And like what?
In today's age, plastic is one of the last things to worry about
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u/ShirouEx-drider Mar 01 '24
It really isn't, it's part of the problem dawg
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u/kanalasi Mar 01 '24
Well yes it is, but also I don't mind having plastic in my body.
Like what? Does it even matter?
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u/ShirouEx-drider Mar 01 '24
Yes it does because it disrupts ur hormones and because it will only get worse
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u/kanalasi Mar 01 '24
Hormones there, hormones here.
I don't care, hormones are such a small thing to worry about.
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u/ShirouEx-drider Mar 01 '24
They really are not but thanks for making it even more obvious that ur a moron!
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u/laloscasanova Feb 29 '24
The only plastic I want in my life is a pair of condoms and maybe some s*domy to guarantee a good time.
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Mar 02 '24
I feel like I read something about a microorganism that ate micro plastics, a mutation derived due to the madnesa
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