Chemicals in everyday plastics may disrupt the body’s natural 24-hour sleep-wake cycle and circadian rhythm in a way similar to coffee, which increases the risk of sleep disorders, diabetes, immune problems and cancer, new in vitro research shows.
The study looked at chemicals extracted from a PVC medical feeding tube and a polyurethane hydration pouch, like those used by long-distance runners. PVC and polyurethanes are also used in everything from kids toys to food packaging to furniture.
The findings showed for the first time how plastic chemicals probably wreak havoc on cell signals that regulate the body’s internal clock, throwing it off by up to 17 minutes.
“We don’t know the significance of it and you could say, ‘Oh it’s just 15 minutes so it’s not a big deal’, but it’s such a tightly controlled clock that it’s a significant shift,” he (Martin Wagner, a study co-author and plastic chemical researcher with the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology) added.
Native Americans and other indigenous groups do not subscribe to exploiting the masses and ruining the environment.
Discounting these groups, and people working hard to protect the planet as simply “outliers” is disingenuous.
Saying that all humans are cancer or corrupted is basically emotional immaturity-- it’s a very childlike world view that chooses to ignore reality.
Humans are animals, neither good or bad. Their actions may be helpful or harmful, but that is a choice each every single person makes.
And if you actually bothered to look, you’d find that most people just want to live a peaceful and quiet life.
You do know what outlier means right? Just because there are exceptions doesn’t mean that the overall behavior of humans isn’t shitty and exploitative.
Slavery is an invention of humans. Rape is a human behavior. Murder is a human behavior. Every evil thing that a person has ever done is part of human nature.
And exactly, those people who just want to live a peaceful and quiet life are the ones who just sit back and let the rich and powerful exploit everything. It doesn’t take many people to stop the exploitation, but most people just keep their heads down.
I’m one of those people who just want to live a quiet life, so I’m not judging, but all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. And there’s a lot of good people doing nothing.
It’s no different than the “all cops are bad” mantra, because there are absolutely cops who aren’t corrupt pieces of shit, but they allow the corrupt pieces of shit to keep being corrupt pieces of shit.
I think we got spoiled by a few decades of relative good and forgot the many thousands of years of war and misery beforehand. And we’re heading back to that world because the evil people aren’t in hiding anymore.
It’s easy to try to blame capitalism, but capitalism is just the end result of human greed and corruption. If industrialization had happened 1,000 years ago, capitalism would have started 1,000 years ago. The fact that it requires a massive amount of regulation to curtail it means that it’s a natural behavior.
I did write an entire college textbook about statistics, so yes! I know what an outlier is.
From a very kind place in my heart, I am going to encourage you to seek therapy because the points you are making are deeply rooted in emotions, and are highly subjective based on your thoughts-- that is, your points are not facts, but merely your own opinions.
No shame in therapy! I enjoy my own time in therapy and I found it very helpful in helping me challenge my own perspectives to a healthier place.
All you have to do is look at the state of the world right now. Yes, there are people working to stop the spread of fascism, but they’re vastly outnumbered. I mean, Trump didn’t hide the pain he wanted to cause, and 2/3 of the country were fine with it because they thought he would be hurting someone else. I mean, basically the entire USA was built on the backs of immigrants who were horribly abused. Shit, we’re about to have a ton of people starve because our slave labor force is being deported. And most product the US consumes has slavery involved in some step of the process.
Most of human history is full of war, slavery, and misery of the masses, often in the name of religion. Sure, there have been societies who strived to be altruistic, but they all fall or are corrupted. And not even the Native Americans were free from this. There were definitely war tribes that practiced slavery and even cannibalism.
Unless we find a way to eradicate Type B personality disorders, horrible people will keep gaining power and convincing the masses to let them commit atrocities. Because one of the major issues with humans is that we want someone else to take the responsibility of making decisions so the consequences aren’t on us.
Both capitalism and communism are great theories on paper, but it’s humans that pervert those systems for personal gain. We eventually corrupt anything we touch.
And I’m in therapy, but I just don’t look at humanity through rose colored glasses. I think since the western world doesn’t have to look these things in the face we forget about them.