• cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world
    31·
    11 days ago

    It’s so fucked

    Micro and nano plastics are so thoroughly spread through the world and through our bodies

    I fully believe it is having negative impacts on my body. I eat takeout a lot and I wear polyester clothes and I live in the city. When I was younger I microwaved my leftovers in the plastic container and so on and so on.

    The only way I know how to decrease plastics in blood is to donate the blood, 1/10th at a time.

    So, do I give up my life and move to the woods and make a log cabin and start a garden and wear wool and linen clothes and donate blood and treat plastic goods like radioactive substances wrapped in asbestos?

    The more I read and learn about the effects of micro and nano plastics - the more that all actually seems rational. But that is such a massive jump from my current lifestyle, I fear I will remain irrational and continue this life, and die early from cancer and discomfort from inflammation.

    • stabby_cicada@slrpnk.netOP
      62·
      11 days ago

      If it helps, don’t think of it as dying early. Think of it as dying at a normal time. It’s earlier generations of Westerners that lived abnormally long lives. They lived in the “sweet spot” when childhood diseases had been defeated by vaccines and we hadn’t yet poisoned the environment with forever chemicals and microplastics, and benefited from the colonial wealth extracted from the rest of the world to give most of their white elders the best possible medical care in their last years - medical care the average person can no longer access or afford.

      Simple fact: the 80-year life expectancies the last few generations enjoyed had never been seen before in human history and will never be seen again.