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Microplastics found in every human semen sample tested in study (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] cor 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

lead was in everything way before the boomers… pipes, cups, plates, paint… people used to bite lead fishing weights….

lead led to the downfall of rome….

the generations before the boomers were plenty good at poisoning the earth…. and many boomers did want to stop it and started the whole hippie thing, earth day, and civil right….

it’s all so much more complex than that….

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

It was leaded gasoline that made lead ubiquitous. Previously folks could minimize the exposure with precaution but by 1930 it was inescapable. No longer limited to physical proximity, lead fumes ensured it was in the air and rain put it in the water.