by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:

We are literally killing ourselves and everything around us, and most people don’t even know that this is happening.  But even if we could get everyone to understand the extinction-level threat that we are facing, would they change their behavior?  The plastic products that we are constantly discarding do not magically disappear.  Instead, they break down into smaller and smaller pieces.  Today, there are trillions upon trillions of incredibly small plastic particles known as “microplastics” that have literally saturated our entire environment.  You may not realize this, but microplastics now make up approximately 40 percent of the dust in our homes.  Every time it rains, microplastics come pouring down from the sky, our soil is absolutely teeming with microplastics, the air that we breathe is filled with microplastics, and microplastics are in virtually everything that we eat and drink.  An article that was recently published by Yale University discussed how pervasive microplastics have now become…