>plants grow in the dirt and risk having insects crawling all over them
Non-sequitor.
>And the sheer number of lifestyle diseases people have.
Red herring. Other peoples' diabetes or obesity doesn't really impact me. Plastic has contaminated water and soil, it's not possible to opt out of the consequences of others using it even if you do not use it yourself.
>I've heard it said
Must be true!
https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2023/december/extrac... if you want to read up on it. It's quite a fascinating area.
> plants grow in the dirt
and water is wet. What is your point?
That they were pointing out an obvious, which you doubled down on
What is the article's point? It strings together a bunch of facts into a fact string. Everything causes cancer and it turns out microplastics cause cancer since they are a thing. They (might, correlation and causation) double the risk of heart attacks which is comparable to a lazy bloke having a desk job. Might be lazy blokes with desk jobs have more microwave dinners though so who knows if that is a real signal.
> One of the studies included in the new review found 1 liter of water — the equivalent of two standard-size bottled waters bought at the store — contained an average of 240,000 plastic particles from seven types of plastics
How many non-plastic particles? I've heard it said there's enough uranium in seawater that we can theoretically use it to generate power.