Chemical pollution has passed safe limit for humanity, say scientists

[NickB79]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/18/chemical-pollution-has-passed-safe-limit-for-humanity-say-scientists

The cocktail of chemical pollution that pervades the planet now threatens the stability of global ecosystems upon which humanity depends, scientists have said.

Plastics are of particularly high concern, they said, along with 350,000 synthetic chemicals including pesticides, industrial compounds and antibiotics. Plastic pollution is now found from the summit of Mount Everest to the deepest oceans, and some toxic chemicals, such as PCBs, are long-lasting and widespread.

The study concludes that chemical pollution has crossed a “planetary boundary”, the point at which human-made changes to the Earth push it outside the stable environment of the last 10,000 years.

We've really shit the nest, haven't we? Can anyone even imagine a plausible way we have a world with fewer plastics and chemicals 30 years from now?

[KT2000]

1. Among all those chemicals

are tons of neurotoxins. That could explain a lot.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Yep. We live in a toxic soup. Explains some of the insanity we are seeing.

[Igel]

4. And antibiotics.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c04158

[ProfessorGAC]

2. To Quote Norma Fell's Character...

...in The Graduate: "One word; plastics"
Until we can figure out how to pretend to recycle plastics, and actually do it, we're in trouble.
Reducing chemical emissions is easy compared to that!