If you look at each large scale environmental issue in isolation, sure, there's a chance that it will be mitigated down the line.
But at what cost in the mean time?
Because this stuff is hitting vital and fragile ecosystems now at scales unprecedented.
Might I remind you that we are well into a mass extinction that shows no signs of slowing down?
With regard to microplastics, it's only a matter of time before we microbes learn to digest them. Those little guys are gonna be everybodies' best friends.
Because of the likelihood that microbes will be learning to eat plastic pretty soon, I don't see microplastics as being quite as daunting of a problem, in isolation.
But I take issue with your casual attitude and prioritization of humanity over the larger ecologies that humanity evolved in and depends on.
We absolutely need to be alert about this and other ecologically issues collectively.
"were" ?
Unless you live in the country side it _is_ an immediate problem to your health and a time bomb for the planet.
https://www.who.int/airpollution/en/
> mostly solved in developed nations
That's exactly the type of thinking that will destroy us. It's always China, or Russia, or developing countries, or your neighbours, or the damn democrats/republicans. Nobody wants to take responsibility. Let's continue to act like 8 years old while our home is slowly burning.
I don't live in a city with a smog problem, and this is not my area of expertise. I was just clarifying what I thought @dsfyu404ed was saying, since it seemed to me that @lm28469 had taken it out of context and jumped to a nasty reply that wasn't really pertinent to what was being claimed.