It’s not a crazier idea than most of Kennedy’s. Someone should do a study. Or make one up, nobody checks anymore.
It’s probably doing all sorts of bad shit including lowering intelligence in general.
Oh guess what else lowers intelligence: Extreme heat and humidity!
I would like to think so, but humans historically have done some really uncomfortable shit ages before plastic turned up.
I hate to break this to you but this shit level of empathy has been with humans for thousands of years. This is not a new phenomenon. It’s not caused by microplastics.
What is new is empowering those without empathy to decide world leaders that have an obscene amount of power. That’s a relatively new development for humanity.
Honestly, that’s been around forever too, whether by votes or force of arms… Come to think of it, it’s mostly the force of wealth and always has been.
The love of money is the root of all evil etc
Probably. There has to be something going on, right? Microplastics are as good a guess as anything else.
Y’all really gonna come up with every excuse for the DNC being garbage?
Regardless of how shitty the DNC is, it seems to defy logic that anyone could support Trump, and yet half of the US does. Because of that, I can see why someone might start thinking there must be some sort of external cause or something.
Organophosphates
Plastics probably affect hormones though.
Why empathy specifically? If it causes damage, then it’s probably global
I’m “trying” to link it to the recent rise of fascism. And general breakdown of society.
You have a point though, a rise in stupidity is part and parcel of the same phenomenon.
recent rise of fascism
I’d look for the reasons to back when fascism has risen in the first place in early 20th century
I mean, we’ve seen plenty of authoritarianism and facism before plastic was invented, so that seems like a dubious notion
That’s why this is in showerthoughts rather than science
