If rainwater is no longer safe to drink, what about plants and animals that consume it? - Are we just perpetually fucked?

[Agent Abe Caprine]

rainwater has always had weird fuckin amoebas in it

Hot tap water also has those brain eating amoeba.

 

[Neurotypical Mantis]

Hot tap water also has those brain eating amoeba.

no that's lead

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Plants and animals have developed a resistance to rainwater, while humans haven't because.......... b-because they just haven't, okay!

Because it's an extremely inefficient way to collect water vs. drawing it out of a river, lake or well? Pretty much any place that gets enough rain to survive off rainwater is going to have a lot more water available from other sources.

Humans haven't even developed a resistance to regular water-borne parasites like giardia or cryptosporidium.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

I guess we'll just have to drink Brawndo

Do I look like a plant to you?

 

[God of Nothing]

Like in the toilet?

 

[Colloid]

I’ve run out of fucks to give after being fear mongered on every facet of the environment the past few decades.

But hey, maybe this time ignoring it’ll actually have real consequences in my personal life.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

"Microplastics: The Superfood of Tomorrow!"

 

[Ser Prize]

Wasn't there some algae that actually broke down plastics or am I retarded?

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Wasn't there some algae that actually broke down plastics or am I retarded?

You're not imagining it.

Also, ze bugz are evolving to eat ze plastics.

 

[Weebburner]

our ecosystem has lived through megavolcano sending ashes through the world, ice ages and plenty of other shit. It will live through the short lived "human era" and its plastic. It will evolve and adapt. Human will also adapt through evolution or outsciencing shit till we kill ourselves in nuclear fire or reach for the stars.

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

Rainwater being bad is no big shock. I remember reading years ago that a mouthful of snow from around here had more lead in it than eating paint chips.

 

[Otoya Yamaguchi]

its a psyop. rainwater is fine. they want to create a narrative of false scarcity to they can sell you water and chemicals instead

 

[Otoya Yamaguchi]

We may be able to invent some sort of biological method to clean up some of these microplastics but honestly we're probably fucked.

plastic is organic material, it breaks down like everything else. there are organisms in dirt that eat petrol and plastic

 

[draggs]

Yeah but its like a couple of dozen or more things like this that increase it by 0.26-1% that then really adds up you know.

That isn't the way probabilities work. It isn't cumulative like that

If you have a 10% chance of dying from one thing and a 10% chance of dying from another thing, in the next year, it doesn't mean you have a 20% chance of dying in the next year

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

That isn't the way probabilities work. It isn't cumulative like that

If you have a 10% chance of dying from one thing and a 10% chance of dying from another thing, in the next year, it doesn't mean you have a 20% chance of dying in the next year

Yep. Interdependent events can be cumulative regarding statistics, independent events can never be cumulative regarding statistics..

 

[Kiwiballs]

That isn't the way probabilities work. It isn't cumulative like that

If you have a 10% chance of dying from one thing and a 10% chance of dying from another thing, in the next year, it doesn't mean you have a 20% chance of dying in the next year

Dude You have a 10% chance of dying from one thing and a 10% chance of dying from an other thing every year in this case.

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

plastic is organic material, it breaks down like everything else. there are organisms in dirt that eat petrol and plastic

Oh shit why is plastic pollution even a problem then? Sounds like it's got a ready made solution...

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Remember when the hole in the ozone layer was going to give everyone really bad sunburn/cancer and burn up all the crops and we're already supposed to have died from starvation?

Before that we were all going to die from nuclear winter because India and Pakistan had nukes and they were definitely going to use them immediately.

Before that we were all going to die of hunger because the population was growing faster than the world's ability to feed the multitudes.

Before that we were all going to die because the Earth's magnetic poles were reversing or the bees were dying, etc.

It's just the secular version of armageddon cults. Once the world doesn't end, you just push the date forward and hope people still believe your bullshit enough to donate to your cause.

I 100% agree with your point but the ozone layer was one of a few things that we actually fixed, they changed the chemicals used (in fact, they found better ones) and it started to repair itself. Rare case of an environmentalist win.

 

[Otoya Yamaguchi]

Oh shit why is plastic pollution even a problem then? Sounds like it's got a ready made solution...

there is no plastic solution problem. the ruling class just dont want you to have things because theyre trying to depopulate you

plastic is made from oil. YOU are using up the oil that is for them. you're what they call a "useless eater". youre consuming their resources. there is no climate or energy crisis. they want to get rid of fossil fuels so you freeze/starve to death

 

[Otoya Yamaguchi]

I 100% agree with your point but the ozone layer was one of a few things that we actually fixed, they changed the chemicals used (in fact, they found better ones) and it started to repair itself. Rare case of an environmentalist win.

there was no hole in the ozone layer