Diary Of The Last Age

The future from global warming is grim, but there is no one that is saying the human race won't go on through a very hot environment.  However, there is something else besides CO2 that presages environmental catastrophe, microplastic .   Microplastics and the plastic waste in our oceans, food-chain and even air are harmful to humans and wildlife. In one study, 100% of the mussels tested contained microplastics. And even if you go vegan and only eat organic food, you are likely to breathe in plastic from urban air and drink it with your water. Why are microplastics such a problem , even in our bodies?    Shanna Swan explains the problem.    The everyday chemicals that might be leading us to our extinction:   Phthalates, used to make plastic soft and flexible, are of paramount concern. They are in everybody and we are probably primarily exposed through food as we use soft plastic in food manufacture, processing and packaging. They lower testosterone and so have the strongest influen

 What is it going to take for people seeing that we're really in a climate emergency?  Sea levels are rising, and in this past year we've experienced unprecedented fire storms in California, unprecedented floods in the American South, and unprecedented storms in the Gulf. Right now an unprecedented freeze in Texas has created havoc in Texas.   Four States are working to pass laws right now to prevent people from placing blame on the oil industry in utter defiance of what is happening.   What is it going to take for people to understand that is happening, sea level?  wildfires?  floods?  freezing weather from the Arctic?   Is it going to be the wealthy property in Miami under water?  The problem is that it is going to have to impact the wealthy.  That the rest of us are going to suffer from climate change is irrelevant.  Nothing will be done until the wealthy are impacted.  They're going to realize that it is too late, their wealth will not protect them.  They will reali