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I'm sure the brains and lungs and balls and blood full of microplastics is entirely unrelated.
Microplastics are stored in the balls?
(In the balls in the balls)
What connection do you believe could exist between ED and microplastics, and why do you think that
No idea.
I think our once unfathomable pollution is having unforseen effects in unforseen ways.
Everyone thought sanity would prevail. That the world would slam on the brakes before any of this got this bad. Instead our leaders accelerated. Daring the rapidly approaching cliff to allow us to fling ourselves into oblivion.
Mostly unrelated. But how long do you think it'll take our inevitable replacement as apex predator to rise to our current level? Dolphins or corvids or whatever they turn out to be. Will they repeat our mistakes? Could we build anything that would last long enough to warn them?
depends on how bad the climate and pollution get.
perhaps the successor will be eusocial and recognize the impacts and folly. but I don't know how a successor would manage to have an industrial revolution with all the easy oil and coal stripped out. given geological time periods it'll be fine, but I wonder how many would be species will suffer for ages in the interim.
Great apes are herbivores. Humans are built to hunt tubers. That's why our mouths are full of amalayse and not teeth that can rend hide.
Cool. But our replacements.
Do you think some other apes will survive and eventually replace us?
No, we will exterminate them all before we go kicking and sobbing.