You know, you might be using a reusable water bottle. I
certainly am. And probably because my wife encouraged me to make the
switch from single use plastic bottles. It made a lot of sense. And now
you've probably noticed the growing number of people carrying them
around and figured it was time to join in. Now, you may be doing this
for all sorts of different reasons. Maybe you're doing it to help the
environment. And sure, there are lots of environmental reasons to opt
for stainless steel or glass over plastic. Plastic waste is a big
problem. I think we all know this, but there are also health reasons to
make the switch. And some of these may surprise you. You may have
recently heard about microplastics, which are exactly what they sound
like. They are tiny fragments of plastic and they can make their way
into our bodies.
CBS
00:00:48
Those particles are about 400 thousands of an inch in zize
and can pass through the bloodstream to reach almost every single
organ.
NBC
00:00:55
These microscopic pollutants have been found in tissue in the human brain.
NPR
00:00:59
Now, new research adds to concerns that they could be affecting male fertility.
CBS
00:01:04
We're now learning that it's possible to take in these particles through the air that we breathe.
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And this is just one product that has become literally everywhere on earth now. For example, in 1985 I saw people burning plastic bottles combined with dried cow feces to cook their food in the Bodhgaya area in Bihar India so the whole place smelled like burning feces and cancer causing burning plastic.
However, hopefully the few weeks we were there didn't cause us any health problems. However, eventually most of us got Giardia likely from feces in the dust in Kathmandu because many roads were not paved there and there were not many bathrooms for people to use so they had to go wherever they were a lot. So, this dried up and blew around in the air too eventually at that time. However, now likely most roads are paved because this was 1985 and 1986 then. However, also now you cannot see the Himalayan Mountains From Kathmandu either most days because of air pollution.
So, can people protect themseleves from plastics in their brains and blood streams? Probably not. This is mutating us and already is affecting male fertility worldwide they were saying above too.
So, what are we being mutated towards?
I foresee we are becoming more towards becoming more and more bionic and chip oriented and for example, my wife just had a new titanium knee put in and already has the other knee done in 2014 and both hips done since then too. And I have two teeth implants now to replace teeth lost over the years which is another amazing thing they can do now too.
In the Star Wars Character (a baddy) called General Grievous he has ONLY his heart left because everything else has been replaced in the science fiction epic series.
So, we are all changing (all life on earth) from having microplastics in our brain and blood and organs already. Who are we becoming? That's hard to fully say right now. However, I don't think we are going extinct as a species any time soon because we soon will be colonizing other planets (even if everyone dies here eventually) from one thing or another.
I think the question is: "How can we best survive all this?
This might be the real question. Because the Genie of Plastic simply cannot be put back in the bottle just as the genie of Nuclear radiation and nuclear power and nuclear weapons cannot be put back in the bottle either.
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