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Microplásticos: cuando lo pequeño es enorme y eterno
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Researchers argue that micro- and nanoplastics represent a fundamentally new kind of health challenge by belonging to the category of 'hyperobjects'—entities that transcend conventional scales of time, space, and causality—requiring new frameworks beyond traditional models of disease causation.
El desafío sanitario vinculado a la ingesta crónica de micro y nanoplásticos no solo halla su razón en las enfermedades de nuevo tipo o por el incremento en la prevalencia y severidad de las ya existentes, sino también porque este tipo de elementos desafían las categorías con las que tradicionalmente se ha entendido la causalidad de los procesos mórbidos. Concretamente, lo que se plantea en este trabajo es que los plásticos en general, y los micro y nanoplásticos en particular, pertenecen a la categoría de lo que Morton califica con el nombre de hiperobjetos, comprendidos como elementos que desafían las escalas deltiempo, el espacio y el sentido común.
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