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We got rid of acid rain. Now something scarier is falling from the sky. (www.vox.com)

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Here’s why you should never, ever drink the rain.

While precipitation has become less acidic, a growing body of evidence suggests that it’s now full of many other pollutants that pose a risk to public health, including microplastics. And unlike the compounds that cause acid rain, these pollutants are almost impossible to get rid of.

Over time, these modern-era substances — which famously take decades to millennia to degrade — have leached into the environment, reaching every corner of the planet, no matter how tall or deep. Microplastics, PFAS, and some other compounds, such as pesticides, are now so widespread

They’re so common, in fact, that they’re even found in the rain.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

I honestly think that microplastics and CO² are a strange thing to give up over.

Both are a mostly genuine mistake made by a civilization that was (at least at the time it commited to the mistake) largely unaware of the problems it was causing. Much like acid rain or the ozone layer.

We are slowly getting to grips with the problem. And don't get me wrong: it sucks how a few extremely wealthy individuals can slow the progress that most other people are trying to achieve to an absolute crawl. This absolutely fucking sucks.

But doom scrolling every day and giving up isn't going to change anything. Neither now nor in the future. It's okay to be sad. And a lot of things are really sad at the moment. But where sadness paralyzes, anger moves. Be angry. You have every right to be.

Edit: Damn. I just noticed the community I'm posting this in. ._.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I havent given up on humans or society. Just on the longevity of our species as it is today on a planet that is filled with toxic waste that cant ever be removed. If the research on fertility trends due to the relevant chemicals isnt completely flawed, it will be a problem that develops over many generations until natural procreation will become impossible for most people.

Its not really our problem tho so who cares lol /s

I think there are much more time critical and still preventable things to be doomy over. Like genocide and slavery and stuff.