Plastic fairy dust

Vincent J. Curtis

1 May 24

In its editorial of April 30^th, the Dogs Nest Dispatch casually asserts that “plastics are clogging our waterways” and speaks of the “microplastics raining down on us all.” Neither claim is remotely true. Which of Canada’s waterways are “clogged” with plastics? I don’t know of any.  And as to the statement that microplastics are raining down: I see no evidence of such a phenomenon.  This microplastics business is nothing more than yet another global scare campaign against those mysterious “chemicals” which have proven so useful to mankind.

Plastics refract light.  If plastics, micro or otherwise, were literally “raining down” as is the claim, we should be able to see it, just as we see snow fall and stay on the ground. If they were in our drinking water, they would be seen floating on top, sunk to the bottom of the glass, or giving the water a murky cast. But none of this is in evidence, anywhere.  And wishing doesn’t make it so.

The Dispatch has sold its soul to woke-PC causes, and that’s precisely what this anti-plastics campaign is all about: the woke-PC cause of ridding the world of something good and useful. Hence, the Dispatch pretends as if microplastic rain were “consensus science.”

If unicorns and fairy dust became the new woke-PC cause, would the Dispatch speak of them approvingly, as the “consensus science”?

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