Plastic is inert. But organisms that absorb it aren't.

It's impossible to separate any organism from its environment.

And what gets into your food gets into you. Every part of you.

"[M]icroplastics and nanoplastics eventually get everywhere. Including inside your liver, kidneys, veins, arteries, and brain. Yes, evolution equipped us with the blood-brain barrier to protect our most sensitive and valuable tissues – but evolution is no match for Mr McGuire. Microplastics are also found in placental tissue – so unborn babies get their fair share.

"The Guardian reports that “Researchers at the Pic du Midi Observatory found airborne microplastics in samples every week between June and October 2017”. That’s a cool 2,877 metres above sea level, in the Pyrenees. Over 9,400 feet up in the sky.

"OK, so there are microplastics everywhere – including inside us. But that doesn’t mean they do us any harm, does it? Unfortunately that turns out not to be the case at all. A study from South Korea published in 2023 states unequivocally:

        'In vitro experiments with human cells and in vivo data generated with mice showed that microplastics elicit adverse health effects mainly by causing inflammation, oxidative stress [increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) production], lipid metabolism disturbances, gut microbiota dysbiosis, and neurotoxicity'".

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"Microplastics Found in Human Brains"
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/m...

"Nearly Half of People in the U.S. Have Toxic PFAS in Their Drinking Water"
https://www.scientificamerican...

It was Upton Sinclair, in or before 1935.

And the reason is blindingly obvious: governments that do not represent the people in any shape or form. Instead, they represent - and obey - the wealthy interests that own them.

Perhaps it's time for another American Revolution, or another French Revolution, or a combination of the two. Here's someone who thought so:

"...England exhibits the most remarkable phaenomenon in the universe in the contrast between the profligacy of it’s government and the probity of it’s citizens. And accordingly it is now exhibiting an example of the truth of the maxim that virtue & interest are inseparable. It ends, as might have been expected, in the ruin of it’s people, but this ruin will fall heaviest, as it ought to fall on that hereditary aristocracy which has for generations been preparing the catastrophe. I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to George Logan (12 November 1816). Published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, Vol. 12, pp. 43-44

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure".
- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Stephens Smith (13 November 1787), quoted in Padover's Jefferson On Democracy

27 million tons? Phooey.

"As of today, it’s estimated that over 9.2 billion metric tons of plastic have been manufactured – just over 1 ton for every person currently alive. The production rate is currently running at over 450 million tons a year. And when we no longer need or want something made of plastic – why, we just get rid of it. It’s so convenient. What could be simpler? The trouble is that plastic is far from being a wasting asset. On the contrary, it is all too permanent. It may change shape or form, but it hangs around all the same".

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"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice".
- Comment posted on Slashdot by Pig Hogger (10379).

I am now quite confused. You ARE joking, aren't you?

The real news would be WHY the seas have been saltier around Antarctica. (If that is true). Where did the salt come from? It would need an awful lot of salt to produce a measurable effect in all the seas round Antarctica.

TFA mentions "sea ice", and later - separately - quote Alessandro Silvano as saying, ""The impact of Antarctic ice is massive in terms of sea-level rise".

Obviously the melting of sea ice has no effect on sea level, although the melting of glaciers on land does.

How about not having a big war?

If that's too difficult, H. sapiens is going down.

"My neighbour’s asleep in his bed,
I’ll soon make him wish he were dead,
I’ll take up the tuba instead – WAA WAA !"

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That was really convincing. For a long moment I thought you were serious! 8-)

Actually this is a very important result, because it highlights ChatGPT's strength and weakness. It's very good at dredging through vast amounts of text and forming principles of prediction, so that it can fake a human being's speech.

But it doesn't have any intellectual power at all - which is exactly what chess tests.

"On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite".

- Emmanuel Lasker, World Champion 1894-1921

Exactly what do LLMs "produce"?

"The world faces an 80% probability of breaking another annual temperature record within the next five years, according to a forecast released Wednesday by the World Meteorological Organization and the UK Meteorological Office".

The Met Office has zero credibility, as it has been discovered that it posts invented temperature readings at 103 non-existent weather stations. If you don't like the sound of that, then move on. If you want to know the facts, read at least one of the following articles.

Science Shock: U.K. Met Office is “Inventing” Temperature Data from 100 Non-Existent Stations
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/...

Inept ‘Fact Check’ by Science Feedback Shines Further Light on U.K. Met Office’s Junk and Fabricated Temperature Measurements
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/...

The Met Office is Unable to Name the Sites Providing ‘Estimated’ Temperature Data For its 103 Non-Existent Stations
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/...

"Problem is ICE users are forcing their fumes and brake dust on everyone".

Electric vehicles don't have brakes? That's exciting news.