Earth matters

[clubgop]

Chicken littles gonna chicken little.

[Montegriffo]

This is worse than we know...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... dy-reveals

Scores of tap water samples from more than a dozen nations were analysed by scientists for an investigation by Orb Media, who shared the findings with the Guardian. Overall, 83% of the samples were contaminated with plastic fibres.
We are living on a plastic planet. What does it mean for our health?


The US had the highest contamination rate, at 94%, with plastic fibres found in tap water sampled at sites including Congress buildings, the US Environmental Protection Agency’s headquarters, and Trump Tower in New York. Lebanon and India had the next highest rates.

European nations including the UK, Germany and France had the lowest contamination rate, but this was still 72%. The average number of fibres found in each 500ml sample ranged from 4.8 in the US to 1.9 in Europe.

Microplastics are also known to contain and absorb toxic chemicals and research on wild animals shows they are released in the body. Prof Richard Thompson, at Plymouth University, UK, told Orb: “It became clear very early on that the plastic would release those chemicals and that actually, the conditions in the gut would facilitate really quite rapid release.” His research has shown microplastics are found in a third of fish caught in the UK.

The scale of global microplastic contamination is only starting to become clear, with studies in Germany finding fibres and fragments in all of the 24 beer brands they tested, as well as in honey and sugar. In Paris in 2015, researchers discovered microplastic falling from the air, which they estimated deposits three to 10 tonnes of fibres on the city each year, and that it was also present in the air in people’s homes.

[Fife]

Muh water.

[Montegriffo]

Let's not bother regulating against this 'cos communism or something.

[Fife]

Let's not bother regulating against this 'cos communism or something.

Oh, it looks like your "communism or something" is doing a bang-up job. Why mess with it, at least until a few more bridges fall down?

:goteam: :drunk:

[GloryofGreece]

Plastic is in the tap water and everything else even if you don't every drink out of plastic! Fuck! I'm guessing plastic is linked to all kinds of hormonal weirdness and who knows other illnesses. And here I thought drinking out of glass instead would help mitigate this bullshit.

[Montegriffo]

Plastic is in the tap water and everything else even if you don't every drink out of plastic! Fuck! I'm guessing plastic is linked to all kinds of hormonal weirdness and who knows other illnesses. And here I thought drinking out of glass instead would help mitigate this bullshit.

It's fucked up. There seems to be no way to avoid ingesting it. It breaks down so small it can get into any in cell your body.

[Montegriffo]

Last Northern White rhino male dies. Just two females left.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-43468066

[Speaker to Animals]

Thank the Chinese.

Start killing poachers.

[C-Mag]

Let's not bother regulating against this 'cos communism or something.

Communism, besides being deadly to humans is dangerous to the environment

Aral Sea after Communism