"You can have 1000 problems in life until you
have a health problem then you only have one"
Why Are We So Sick?
Hospitals are full, lines at pharmacies are continuous. The United States ranked 69th in health care and 12th in the world for obesity -- the second leading cause of preventable death behind tobacco use.
But recently our reliance on single-use plastics has created a crisis that not only harms our planet but is linked to serious health issues. It is estimated that all of us living on this planet are consuming about a credit card worth of plastic each week!
Scientists have detected small pieces of plastics called microplastics in people’s lungs, blood, placentas, in our food and drinks—including water, beer, fruit, honey, salt, and vegetables—and in Earth’s air, soils, and oceans, creating neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease in every corner of the Earth. We're all becoming more plastic.
Plastic pollution and its related health issues are often dismissed that it's "NOT MY PROBLEM." However, the reality is WE ARE THE PROBLEM! We are the consumers who use these products and irresponsibly discard the containers. We use roughly 100 billion plastic bags every year. Many of which are single-use, ultimately ending up in our oceans and landfills. AND worse. In our bodies
Microplastics are defined as a particle of plastic that is smaller than five millimetres, or roughly the size of a sesame seed, but they can also be much smaller. Because plastic is virtually indestructible, microplastics can continue to break down until they are so small that they must be measured on a nanometre scale.
Get Out There!
Exxon-Mobil knew about
climate change 40 Years Ago!
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