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Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
2:08 – The Prevalence of Microplastics
3:46 – Microplastics Harm the Earth
9:27 – Microplastics Harm Our Bodies
12:42 – The Fossil Fuel Industry Lied To Us All
19:37 – Toppling the Petrochemical Empire
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Correction:
19:37 – The title should read “Toppling the Petrochemical Plastic Empire”
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Correction: 19:37 – The title for part five should read "Toppling the Petrochemical Plastic Empire"
tell China about how communism is good for the environment
NAH WE KNOW !
😕 man
Scaremongering for children
Aren't most micro plastics found in our bodies from our toothbrush?
Whatever! Just another 🐂💩 spewing, propaganda pushing channel
Most woman are already adopting the plastic standard so whatever 😂
Algae
Fungi
Just Stop having kids
Mandate all plastics must be heavier than water & problem solved
Using false commitments and false hopes to skirt their greenhouse gas emissions seems like a tried and tested tactic is it still going on today
We live on earth like everything else, but we think we aren't a part of nature.
Turns out life in plastic ain't so fantastic
I heard in my local radio station that microplastics are also causing men's genitals to grow smaller throughout the generations. If there's one thing to convince insecure men to join the fight against microplastics, then this would be it.
I'm afab and I have a beard. I'm worried that when I finally make it to the endocrinologist he's gonna look at me and say "you're so full of plastic that you've destroyed your hormones"
My sexy aesthetic! is highly synthetic! Fucky genetics! totally plastic!
Endocrine disruptors?
[Alex Jones has entered the chat]
there are plenty of folks recycling mixed plastics into salable chemicals.
this is just fear p*rn. nothing. can do about it…..
Geo-engineering are the largest players in this death cult agenda
Actually they're LESS dangerous than you think. The whole reason they exist is because they are resilient and don't break down, whuch also means they do little or nothing. There us almost no evidence they do anything negative to us at all. This is pure hype.
Does anyone know if that circuit tree at 1:21 is a real product? It's pretty cool
In addition to nanoparticles of plastic you also have nanoparticles of wood and rock in your body and it deals with all of them quite well as it has for millennia. 🙂
Inflammation is also connected to mental well being, especially depression. I wonder how much microplastics have had an effect there
Its so hard to get off plastic due to the high population and global supply and customer base. Maybe some corn plastic substitute can be cheaply mass produced. Its hard to see how to get away from oil based plastic.
if only we had a molicule decompiler so could break it back down into oil which in turn can be recycled or used entirely diffrent thing.
the irony is if this was so important, it wouldent be on something for $ to watch early i understand need to make money but litterly crawling right into the very maw of the system that claim to want to destroy.
There's a reason nature buries petroleum products so far underground. It is truly anti-life.
The scary thing is that there is an exponential increase in microplastic and that even if we halted all production now, we will still have ever increasing levels of it stuck in our organs. But of course we are not halting production and so we think it's bad now….. Unless a major breakthrough happens in environmental remediation, it's going to get a whole lot worse at an exponential rate.
Are we really pretending that fruits and veggies are more important than plancentas?