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The Impact of Microfibers on the Environment
Matt Welch: Plastics are fossil fuels. They actually, when they're released as microfibers in the environment, scientists have shown them to off-gas carbon. This is going to require people as a society to elect politicians that fully understand the scale of this threat and fully understand that this is intimately linked to the climate crisis. We can't let that happen anymore because given the opportunity, they will keep producing more and more of this stuff. Eventually, they'll just become untenable for much of life on Earth to actually exist if this gets even more out of control.