I’ve been more and more conscious about microplastics. I was not aware that the laundry and dishwasher pods are just plastic which then goes into the water system.

What can be done to prevent microplastics?

  • FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
    552·
    9 months ago

    Why worry about something I can’t control. The sack of meat I call a body will only take so much abuse from the world’s oligarchs before it gives up…their bodies too.

    I can rearrange me life to the most extremes, but my neighbour will still burn garbage and consume twice as much as I ever will within a week. There’s no stopping this until companies are held accountable and the rich are jailed, which we all know will never happen.

      • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        151·
        9 months ago

        I don’t get it. Not worrying about things you can’t control is an “under 40” take? It seems like a sane human take regardless of age.

        • HollandJim@lemmy.world
          94·
          9 months ago

          The “why worry what I can’t control” is the under-40 part, but to be honest I initially considered under-30.

          But by 40 you’d more likely than not have or care about children, and then you’d be worrying more about the the world you leave for them. Since they’re always copying you, you’d be more aware that every action has consequences, and that includes cynicism (especially since, by 40, you’re more likely to accept the idea that you don’t know everything).

          Maybe by then it’d be in your self-interest to make the world better even by little increments instead of wearing sarcasm like a cloak of invisibility.

        • intensely_human@lemm.ee
          48·
          9 months ago

          No, thinking that the missing ingredient to solve microplastics is to punish powerful people, is the under 40 part.

    • Hacksaw@lemmy.ca
      821·
      9 months ago

      Ah yes climate doomerism. “The Earth is going to become uninhabitable, but there’s nothing anyone can do about it now so I’ll just keep on keeping on”. Classic!

        • waz@lemmy.world
          11·
          9 months ago

          True, you said “Why worry about something I can’t control”. Paired with “I never said nothing cant be done” gives me the impression that you think something can be done, just not by you.

          If you don’t think you can, who do you think could?

          It isn’t going to be just one person that will motivate change, it will have to be a bunch of people. You could be one of those people, but I don’t think those people will have much success if they maintain the “Why worry about something I can’t control” way of thinking.

      • piecat@lemmy.world
        111·
        9 months ago

        If all the people with a brain who give a shit stress themselves out into having health issues and heart attacks, what are we left with?