>>2337849oil comes from neither of those places and while China is often blamed for producing plastics they aren't the end user.
If china wasn't pollution their country to make your products you would just have to pollute your own country.
>>2337838Sand made out of plastic is very real and you can simply sift it out of regular sand or dirt.
Air pollution is very real and you can filter any amount of air and get a pile of gunk in the filter.
How much of a problem is it?
Well that's a values issue.
>>2337456people use microplatic to mean lots of things, it comes from all manner of plastics and the sun breaks doesn't break it down atomically- it just makes the plastic sand into plastic dust.
>>2337450nigger do you even go outside?
mass extinction is happening within our lifetimes, there are animals my father used to see that no longer exist, and ones my grandfather used to hunt are literally extinct.
ocean macro-cycles also very real.
Could and are wiping out whole countries, this is a gradual thing and you may be happy with the entire of Somalia and east Africa moving into your neighborhood but I'm not,
