Stardust_Staubsauger t1_j6a09la wrote
Reply to comment by 3meow_ in UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year by giuliomagnifico
Jokes aside: Yes.
Sperm counts had declined by 52.4 percent between 1973 and 2011.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_infertility_crisis#2010s%E2%80%93present
3meow_ t1_j6a0zf1 wrote
Oh boy... Thanks for the link
Sparkybear t1_j6apvr1 wrote
Except that was attributed to diet and exercise, not to plastics.
Stardust_Staubsauger t1_j6as8vm wrote
>Proposed explanations include lifestyle factors (such as diet) and environmental endocrine disruptors, such as those found in plastics
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djdefekt t1_j6asp2o wrote
If only our diet weren't full of plastics so we could have a control...
Tall-Log-1955 t1_j6arq2r wrote
But the sperm went down when the plastic went up so QED
Big-Mathematician540 t1_j6bw7hf wrote
Well, I wouldn't say we can just wish it's only a correlation.
With something like this, I honestly think it's good to check, if we can. Unlike with pool drowning and Nicholas Cage movies.
FriedRiceAndMath t1_j6g4g96 wrote
We eat the things that eat the plastics.
Kinda like, I want my pizza toppings to have eaten other pizza toppings.
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