Dinosaur Pee

RECEIVED Tue., June 18, 2019

Dear People,
    Did you know that you drink dinosaur pee? Water molecules from those days are still here, constantly churning around. You also breathe the same air as Julius Caesar. The Earth is pretty much a closed system, so everything just keeps recirculating.
    And gentlemen, did you know you only have half as much sperm as your great-grandpa? Male fertility has been dropping rapidly during the last century.
    So what do these two things have in common? It turns out that bits of plastic are going around and around and getting tinier all the time. Microplastics have even been found drifting in the air, high in the French Alps. Many plastics cause cancer, birth defects, and yes, sterility.
    The U.S. plastics industry is poised to have a record-breaking year. As we add thousands of tons of plastic garbage to the planet every day we're not just making an unsightly mess, we're possibly guaranteeing the extinction of most life forms. Including us.
Cheers,
Christopher Jones
Austin
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