Did you know about its increasing levels? Concentrations of microplastics in the brain have been found to be increasing over time, with a roughly 50% rise between 2016 and 2024 in one study.
75% of your brain is water, which is another ocean. It takes 20 years for a plastic bag to break down and up to 450 years for a plastic bottle or even longer for you to sleep soundly in a world that won’t stop buzzing and shaking you up in the night like a science experiment they’ve left too long alone. Thoreau said "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." Which is to say, how will you pour yourself out in this life, and for whom? Who told you to dig like a spoon for their gold? The rich look at the moon like a blank face, having counted her as a deductible. Just sixty years from now 10.2 billion people will turn their head up towards the sky like children to a passing mother; they’ll ask for one more night.
