Plastics

Good Morning!

Well, a fairly sleepless night, but that is part of the course isn’t it? Pumpkin was with me most of the night. As we’ve all established by now, this gives me a great deal of comfort. Grey slept out on the couch, which is not like her.

But she did eat this morning so that’s good.

I watched another documentary on micro plastics, and plastic in general yesterday. It’s interesting to me, because after the documentary was over, I started looking at all the things I buy that are made of plastic. My toothbrush, the containers for toothpaste, my brush, containers for cleaning supplies and food. It’s pervasive.

They had people, like four different couples, who are infertile for no distinguishable reason, be a part of this three month study. They changed everything and they measured the men’s sperm count. At the end of the study, all of the sperm counts, went up, and three of the couples had viable pregnancies that led to birth.

Birth rates have gone down all over the world and it’s interesting because it does coincide with the massive production of plastic and it’s used and almost everything.

This study was based on what it does to the human body and not the environment.

It got me going down the whole rabbit hole of everything. You know, all these supplements that are supposed to detox, your liver, and help you sleep and slow down the aging process and blah blah blah. I buy into that the same way I buy into all the political bullshit.

People will believe anything if it aligns with what they wanted to align with.

If the best I can do, is cut out as many plastics as possible and take a daily supplement and try to eat healthier, that’s huge. I don’t need to spend $160 on a protein powder every month and another 60 on a liver detox drink and yet another 100 on a sleep aid.

In studies, it has also been shown that certain kinds of plastic cause weight gain and at least one of the participants in this show last 12 pounds in 12 months just by cutting back on plastics. People slept better. It truly is pervasive.

I was really inspired in the show because there was a woman down in Louisiana, who fought this huge plastic plant going up. It was in a very poor area, meaning financially, poor, and a ton of her friends and acquaintances had died of cancer. Of course, the Senator of the state was saying how great this was gonna be for employment rates and blah blah blah. But this woman fought it and she won. 

Anyways, I’m not just gonna jump into this. I can’t replace everything I have. But I am going to start replacing things with glass and ceramic, bamboo, all of that, and once I get the household stuff done, I am going to have to start going into the actual grocery store and not ordering for pick up so that I can bring my own bags in. There are bags Made of natural materials that mimic plastic and breakdown, but you can’t just throw them in the garbage because they need to be in dirt in order to break down and if they go into a regular waste environment, they are surrounded by plastics and don’t get the chance to breakdown.

But I think it’s important that all of us have one thing that we try to do for ourselves and for the greater good and I’d like to see if this makes any kind of change.

Mental health disorders, such as autism and ADHD have gone through the roof as well and while there’s no definitive proof that plastics is the reason for this, it does coincide with plastics being used for everything.

And they did go on to say that it’s not plastic itself, like there’s other ways to make plastic, it’s the way we make it now and the chemicals involved, and it would take a lot of work and change, but it can be done differently and it can be done better.

So there’s my blog for today. Plastics.

I am trying to fast and I have to do a quick clean because I didn’t do all of it yesterday and they’re inspecting the apartment today. Then I am meeting a friend for coffee.

I’m tired. I only smoked six cigarettes yesterday, but I have already had three this morning which leaves me with seven for the day.

I HAVE to stick to this. I have to prove to myself that I can do this.

OK, on with it we go.

Have a great day.

Be Blessed.

Love & Light,

Neecie