The fight against microplastics and rising levels of environmental toxins should be taken up by those claiming to break with the establishment’s ‘green’ transition.
Humanity’s ongoing plastic saga suggests that mass production and mass disposability—the same process that replaces fabrication and craftsmanship with production—also reduces our ability to make ourselves, that is, to reproduce.
It is for future research to determine how these particles can be evacuated from the body, and what the full scope of their effects are. On the other hand, it is for policy-makers and civil society to eliminate the use of plastic in contexts and at levels that have a negative impact on public health.
