3meow_ t1_j69sx75 wrote
Reply to comment by Stardust_Staubsauger in UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year by giuliomagnifico
So, microplastics is what leads us to the children of men arc
Stardust_Staubsauger t1_j6a09la wrote
Jokes aside: Yes.
Sperm counts had declined by 52.4 percent between 1973 and 2011.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_infertility_crisis#2010s%E2%80%93present
3meow_ t1_j6a0zf1 wrote
Oh boy... Thanks for the link
Sparkybear t1_j6apvr1 wrote
Except that was attributed to diet and exercise, not to plastics.
Stardust_Staubsauger t1_j6as8vm wrote
>Proposed explanations include lifestyle factors (such as diet) and environmental endocrine disruptors, such as those found in plastics
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djdefekt t1_j6asp2o wrote
If only our diet weren't full of plastics so we could have a control...
Tall-Log-1955 t1_j6arq2r wrote
But the sperm went down when the plastic went up so QED
Big-Mathematician540 t1_j6bw7hf wrote
Well, I wouldn't say we can just wish it's only a correlation.
With something like this, I honestly think it's good to check, if we can. Unlike with pool drowning and Nicholas Cage movies.
FriedRiceAndMath t1_j6g4g96 wrote
We eat the things that eat the plastics.
Kinda like, I want my pizza toppings to have eaten other pizza toppings.
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