A new craze / worry

[matrixmann]

Lately microplastics have become a hot topic in the section of "environmental pollution caused by humans".

Well, let's put this short and straight: If anyone was so concerned about this being around everywhere, get the fuck down to ask yourself who introduced this wide range of plastic materials anyway? It didn't drop from the sky, neither was it there from one to the other day out of the blue. Someone made it so that it's there where it is today.
And, just like always there have been early indications for nearly everything that something "man" thinks of it is handy, but actually it's harmful, don't say that this hasn't been known before! Don't say this is something new!
The warning voices have only been silenced or bought by whoever made profit from the plastics.

Comments

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I just read a report of some environmental group that said that our planet has like ten years left due to human consumption and never mentioned who is responsible for that crazy over-expanding consumption. You said it right.

[matrixmann]

You know, I think I already mentioned it somewhere in a past conversation that I've been wondering how it came that the many throw-away items made of plastic became standard all over the world? (like throw-away knife, fork and spoon and such stuff)
And what it ended up with was "actually nobody knows that concretely". It just emerged and - commonly it is regarded as a product of the amassing of wealth in the Western developed world. Literally "it came because the wealthy part of the world could afford it to produce things for a one-time-use".
But, due to many other things I know meanwhile which have a story reaching farer back into history, I developed doubt in this explanation pattern.
Something doesn't happen because of no reason - that is what you can say for sure. Someone makes it happen. Someone wants it to happen.
So for the mysterious story of the rise of plastic in so many everyday life items, this must apply too. It's not a simple story of "we were so wealthy we ould afford it to easily throw things away".
Only nobody seems to know the real reason why, and the story how circumstances developed are blurred.