> I do object to simple fear-mongering over yet another new thing to be afraid of in our world
Well, we're fucking up big times and have plenty of reasons to be worried, if your house is on fire calling the firefighters isn't fear mongering.
> most other things appear to be orders of magnitude more dangerous to us than micro-plastics, e.g. drinking alcohol, traffic fumes/air pollution
You can chose not to drink alcohol or not to smoke. You can't chose not to ingest micro plastic. And you're right, air pollution is a similar issue, should we ignore rising issues because we're already dealing with existing ones ?
By the way, nobody is telling you to be scared. Micro plastics in placenta is, apparently, a fact, micro plastics being dangerous to us is a fact, chose how you feel about it but don't shoot the messenger.
Well, we're fucking up big times and have plenty of reasons to be worried, if your house is on fire calling the firefighters isn't fear mongering.
> most other things appear to be orders of magnitude more dangerous to us than micro-plastics, e.g. drinking alcohol, traffic fumes/air pollution
You can chose not to drink alcohol or not to smoke. You can't chose not to ingest micro plastic. And you're right, air pollution is a similar issue, should we ignore rising issues because we're already dealing with existing ones ?
By the way, nobody is telling you to be scared. Micro plastics in placenta is, apparently, a fact, micro plastics being dangerous to us is a fact, chose how you feel about it but don't shoot the messenger.