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The Great Microplastic Equalizer
Biology Earth-science Materials
7 days ago 14.7K views 0 shares
The Great Microplastic Equalizer
The comic starts all wholesome with its "we may look different, we may think different" setup, making you expect some heartwarming message about human connection. Then BAM! The punchline hits you with the cold, hard environmental truth - we're all walking microplastic repositories! Studies show the average person consumes about a credit card's worth of plastic weekly. So next time someone says "you are what you eat," remember we're all basically becoming part-time Tupperware. The universal equalizer isn't love or death anymore... it's those pesky plastic particles we can't escape. Environmental crisis has never been so darkly hilarious!

Earth's Awkward Check-In Call
Oceanography Earth-science Climate
1 month ago 6.3K views 0 shares
Earth's Awkward Check-In Call
Earth: "Hey little man hows it goin?" *News flashes: 27 MILLION TONS OF NANOPLASTICS IN NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN* Human: *dead inside* "yea..." The ultimate environmental guilt trip! Nothing like being casually asked how you're doing by the planet you're actively filling with microscopic plastic confetti. That awkward moment when you realize your water bottle might outlive human civilization. The Earth deserves better friends than us!

Some Things Never Change: The Evolution Of Toxins
Chemistry Materials Science Earth-science
3 months ago 8.3K views 0 shares
Some Things Never Change: The Evolution Of Toxins
The dark evolution of environmental toxins across generations! Each Spider-Man represents a different era of human-made pollutants we've unknowingly absorbed. Grandpa got asbestos from all those "miracle" building materials, Dad scored lead from gasoline and paint, and now we're walking microplastic repositories thanks to literally everything plastic breaking down into tiny particles. The circle of life, except instead of passing down wisdom, we're passing down increasingly sophisticated toxic substances. Progress? Microplastics are now found everywhere from mountaintops to human placentas. They're so ubiquitous that the average person consumes about a credit card's worth of plastic every week. Congratulations everyone, we've successfully upgraded from "may contain traces of nuts" to "definitely contains traces of your shower curtain."