Gareth Morgan
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Still reading Silent Spring, I get the feeling that we will look back on our use of plastic in a similar way to our use of dangerous chemicals. The effects are just much slower. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #ecology
Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests
Research looking at tissue from postmortems between 1997 and 2024 finds upward trend in contamination
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Still reading Silent Spring, I get the feeling that we will look back on our use of plastic in a similar way to our use of dangerous chemicals. The effects are just much slower. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #ecology
I have been reading Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring. Each time she mentions a chemical, I look it up to find if we're still using it over 50 years later. Surprised to find that arsenic was still used in food production until 2015 in the US.
#ecology
#ecology
January 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I have been reading Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring. Each time she mentions a chemical, I look it up to find if we're still using it over 50 years later. Surprised to find that arsenic was still used in food production until 2015 in the US.
#ecology
#ecology