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What the plan to deal with this? People make fun of doomers, but this unfixable.

PS: originally this said boomers, but I meant Doomers, as I. People who run around screaming the world is doomed

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Lawyers. If harmful effects are found decades later, then we'll be entitled to compensation! How fun.

This will affect every child In The world for many generations.

Who is paying these damages in trillions? Even if you were to pin it on specific companies, they would go bancrupt.

It was more of a joke because usually compensation is next to nothing in large class actions. Basically, we don't really care.

Here's your 3 dollars, don't spend it all in one place.

Lead and asbestos in housing and consumer products were similarly intractable, but we (mostly) banned them anyway. We're still dealing with removal and mitigation decades later, but at least those problem aren't getting any worse. At some point you have to say enough is enough and ban plastics in contexts where they're most likely to find pathways into the biosphere: food containers, disposable goods, clothes, car tires, water pipes, etc. Just because the problem will take centuries to resolve doesn't mean that we can't start now.

This is not in housing, it’s in the water, in the snow, it’s everywhere forever.

I think you are confusing plastics with so-called forever chemicals.

I'm not sure they are. Microplastics have been found in snow[1] and in "oceans, air and food supply"[2]. Additionally, the so-called forever chemicals (PFAS) originated with PTFE (Teflon) plastic, and PFAS 'forever chemicals' are used to produce polymers used in plastics, rubber and fabrics so they are intimately linked with plastics and microplastics.

1: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61739159

2: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02968-x

Enzymes

nanobots?

Just the thing when you've swallowed a fly.

Nanobots in the Olfactory Bulb of the Human Brain (2030)

...what are those sha512 hashes doing in the author list?

Nanomachines, son.

a.k.a. enzymes

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