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Date: August 10, 2022 at 18:00:49
From: The Hierophant, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Rainwater Is No Longer Safe to Drink Thanks to Plastics |
URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/bad-news-for-earth-rainwater-is-no-longer-safe-to-drink-thanks-to-plastic/ar-AA10ws6q?li=BBnbfcL |
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It seems like everything modern humans do is destroying
the Earth - and the majority of humans don't seem to
care. Enough is enough - before we modernize ourselves
into an early extinction. People are all bent out of
shape because of possible side effects of vaccines,
yet, adding more and more plastics into our environment
is o.k.....go figure.
"The environment contains thousands of hazardous
chemicals from plastics.
A recent study shows that at least four of these
plastics have pushed us beyond safe limits for plastic
contamination.
Drinking rainwater could negatively impact human health
around the world.
Remember when you were a kid, and it was fun to tip
your head back during a rainstorm and open your mouth
to drink the drops? You shouldn’t do that anymore.
That’s because you’ll be ingesting too many particles
of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances
(PFAS), the hazardous chemicals that leach from the
ultra-durable plastics we’ve created for about the past
120 years.
Earth is officially past its safe zone for plastic
contamination. The PFAS “boundary has been exceeded,”
according to a study published August 2 in the journal
Environmental Science and Technology. PFAS are known to
be hazardous to both the environment and human health.
At this point, these “forever chemicals” are all over
the globe and have seeded the atmosphere. Most
importantly, they don’t break down in the environment.
“Based on the latest U.S. guidelines for PFOA in
drinking water, rainwater everywhere would be judged
unsafe to drink. Although in the industrial world we
don’t often drink rainwater, many people around the
world expect it to be safe to drink and it supplies
many of our drinking water sources,” Ian Cousins, a
professor at Stockholm University’s Department of
Environmental Science, and the lead author of the
study, says in a news release.
There are thousands of different PFAS substances
floating around. The study compared the levels of four
common forms (PFOS, PFOA, PFHxS, and PFNA) in various
sources: rainwater, soils, and surface waters such as
streams, lakes, and oceans. They found that levels of
at least two forms of PFAS in rainwater, PFOA and PFOS,
“often greatly exceed” the safe levels in drinking
water, as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) advises. Levels of the chemicals also exceed
environmental protection agencies’ standards in
different parts of the world, too.
Depending on the type of PFAS, maximum safe levels
according to the EPA range from 0.004 parts per
trillion (ppt) for PFOA to 2,000 ppt for PFBS (another
form of the PFAS chemical, which the study didn’t focus
on). While the idea of imbibing any plastic is
abhorrent, when the human body exceeds safe limits, it
can lead to deleterious affects throughout the body,
impacting the immune system, cardiovascular system,
fertility, and child development to name a few
physiological consequences. There’s evidence that PFOA
can likely cause cancer in humans, according to the
EPA."
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Date: August 13, 2022 at 08:51:42
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Rainwater Is No Longer Safe to Drink Thanks to Plastics |
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Date: August 12, 2022 at 15:18:20
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Rainwater Is No Longer Safe to Drink Thanks to Plastics |
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Oh, it's lots more than plastics in the rainwater!
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Date: August 10, 2022 at 20:49:25
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Rainwater Is No Longer Safe to Drink Thanks to Plastics |
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Date: August 11, 2022 at 19:54:02
From: Jeff/Lake Almanor,CA, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Rainwater Is No Longer Safe to Drink Thanks to Plastics |
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I've been telling you two that for years. LOL
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