Friday, June 01, 2007
Link: Plastic
Moore has sailed Alguita back to the Garbage Patch several times. On each trip, the volume of plastic has grown alarmingly. The area in which it accumulates is now twice the size of Texas.
And there’s growing—and disturbing—proof that we’re ingesting plastic toxins constantly, and that even slight doses of these substances can severely disrupt gene activity. “Every one of us has this huge body burden,” Moore says. “You could take your serum to a lab now, and they’d find at least 100 industrial chemicals that weren’t around in 1950.”
Link.
Via Mimi Smartypants. She's right; it's the kind of article that makes you want to curl up in a ball. Is there any hope or are we too stupid to live?
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