Drinking alcohol is probably way worse, but you can choose to not drink, you can't choose to live a normal life and not get microplastics.

Also, alcohol has existed since forever and humans have been drinking it since the beginning of civilization. We have a pretty good idea of what it does and how to keep it under control. Microplastics are a recent thing, it may be a dud, but it may be a serious problem for future generations, so keeping an eye on them is a good thing.

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_aavaa_ 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Sure, but the popular news and people concerned about it are generally much closer to hysteria than “keeping an eye on them.”

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Dylan16807 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Which might be the correct answer! Something that's extremely hard to undo should have us much more worried than keeping an eye. We should have tons of research projects running on this.

	▲	righthand an hour ago \| parent [-]
		“The research in microplastics could be used to control and/or eliminate people.” I just wrote the argument to get all the necessary research funded.