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Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation (www.theguardian.com)
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The pollution of the planet by microplastics is significantly cutting food supplies by damaging the ability of plants to photosynthesise, according to a new assessment.

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[โ€“] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah farmers will protest against it..

[โ€“] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah they'll protest against any attempt to fix it after they're propagandized into thinking it is woke and will raise their taxes. Small farmers are a vanishingly small part of the food grown in the US, and most of them are wealthy assholes. Family farmer is just a political pawn that gets trotted out to raise emotions. Oh no the Democrats might hurt their precious subsidies! These poor family farmers might starve while owning millions of dollars in land.