I am busy and don’t have time to research all of the ways corporations have poisoned us.

What are some good rules on how to avoid microplastics?

Eat local foods? Avoid processed foods? Walk/bike? Use dry soaps? Don’t use any take away containers? Avoid walking near busy roads? Use cotton/wool for all clothing?

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Become a communist and start advocating for workers to run the economy because we wouldn’t fuck ourselves over like capitalists will.

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you don’t. you can try to mitigate it by using less plastic yourself, buying local foods, whatever, but it won’t make much of an impact.

the less bad news is that plastic, by its own properties, is chemically relatively inert, so they’re really not that harmful. they’re still bad, mind you, just not all that hyped up to be.

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PFAS are extremely inert, yet they wreak all kinds of havoc in the bodies of humans and animals.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_substances

Scientists thought, as you say, that them being chemically inert means they wont be dangerous to living creatures. Sadly they were proven wrong on that.

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Move to a different planet? I think this cat is out of the bag, they are everywhere now, it’s the lead of the current generation.

The steps you listed seem like reasonable action anyway, but there simply isn’t anything you can do to avoid them here.

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They’re in he air, the water, the food, your brain, apparently. Your reproductive fluids…there’s literally no escape. We signed this pact with satan when capitalism determined that profit is the only thing that matters.

The first step we could take? Bringing the exploitative and murderous system of capitalism to its knees. So we can promptly shoot it in the back of the head. Then, maaaybe our children’s children’s children would have an option to avoid microplastics.

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