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Microplastics – “A Poison Like No Other,” Climate Scientists Sound the Alarm, Nat’l Audubon Keeps Enslaver’s Name and more

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A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies

Matt Simon is the author of A Poison Like No Other, How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies. He takes a deep dive into the world of microplastics and what we can do to stop them. Plastic has at least 10,000 different chemicals in it, a quarter of which scientists consider to be of concern. It's something that organisms that are small enough can swallow and choke on.

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