Nah, everybody dies of something. It's also never ACTUALLY "old age". It's either cancer, or a cascading failure of organs caused by a chronic disease, or both.

[–] cor@slrpnk.net 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

a lot more people are getting cancer at younger ages than before

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

and is it like how there were "suddenly" more left handed or non-straight people? Sounds more like everyone jumping on headlines.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe pumping chemicals and plastic into the food and water supply is actually really good for us. I bet everyone didn't think about that.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

You might be able to link the cited article to a decline in sperm count.

Might. Saying, "yep, definitely why cancer" is simply and only a jump to conclusions.

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Citation pls?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Step 1: assessment of current situation as a bad thing

Step 2: lemmy user defends bad thing for reasons, as one does

Step 3: ablockalypse nao

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I am not defending microplastics, but pointing out how there are baseless assumptions being made.

[–] SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There's no way microplastics are worse than heavy metal poisoning.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The scale of this though...

[–] SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

We used to put lead in gasoline and emit lead fumes everywhere we drove. I still don't think microplastics can compare.

[–] cor@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago

worse is pretty subjective… is brain damage worse than brain cancer?
the full effects of this aren’t understood, of course… but my money is on: very very bad.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nah, generational lead poisoning gave us the Great Regression, taking our boomers and making them the way they are instead of being their parents, who flew to the moon and made the UN as a way to foster discission before jumping into war. There was hope in humanity's actions before lead made myopic narcissists who were okay with poisoning the world.

[–] cor@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

lead was in everything way before the boomers… pipes, cups, plates, paint… people used to bite lead fishing weights….

lead led to the downfall of rome….

the generations before the boomers were plenty good at poisoning the earth…. and many boomers did want to stop it and started the whole hippie thing, earth day, and civil right….

it’s all so much more complex than that….

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

It was leaded gasoline that made lead ubiquitous. Previously folks could minimize the exposure with precaution but by 1930 it was inescapable. No longer limited to physical proximity, lead fumes ensured it was in the air and rain put it in the water.