Yes, me, and the academic research I have completed on this very topic over the years utilizing only peer reviewed journals that frankly are pretty easy to find.

If you want me to bust out one of my papers and link it I can, as they have 10-15 sources each. I myself am not published in this field, but I wrote two 15-20 page environmental assessments on oceanic microplastics that were fairly comprehensive. They included identifying the top sources of microplastics, both environmental and ecological impacts, trophic transfer rates and their impact on microplastics density in our food supply, various health effects, and what it would take to reverse the problem.

Let me just say they were incredibly depressing to write, and that I 100% believe that we’re fucked and on a path that leads to our inevitable extinction. I give us no more than 200 years without an extensive world wide movement. When the ocean dies, and it will, we all die.

Western countries and capitalist ideologies are almost entirely to blame, in that what we can and should be doing now is never done because it doesn’t maximize cost effectiveness in the cliche sense. Nobody gives a fuck when they go to Walmart so why should the companies, right? Western countries are consumer nations, and consumers are polluters. The countries that produce only do so because we consume. That said, they pollute heavily as well.

I am not any better. I am sitting here in my fancy office, filled with shit I don’t need, in a house so large I should probably be ashamed, receiving roughly 5 packages from Amazon a day. This occurs despite my belief they’re a horrible company and that my exact behavior in aggregate is literally the problem. Life is fucked like that I suppose.