There’s a “great” future in plastics
The year was 1967 and, aside from a little skirmish in South East Asia, the world looked to be offering everyone a bright future as illustrated in this quote from the movie The Graduate
Yes it was a great thing to get into at that time. Now we are beginning to reap the cost of that can-do enthusiasm to go out there and make your fortune despoiling the planet. From the Great Pacific Garbage Gyre to this
A study of 145 preschool children reports that when the concentrations of two common plastic softeners—known as phthalates—in mothers’ prenatal urine are elevated their sons are less likely to engage in male-typical play.
Findings were published recently in the International Journal of Andrology.
Because testosterone produces the masculine brain, researchers are concerned that fetal exposure to anti-androgens such as phthalates—which are pervasive in the environment—has the potential to alter masculine brain development, says lead author Shanna Swan, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
This is only the beginning of of the damage we will discover over time from the careless use of substances.
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