To the editor:
When we moved to Leelanau County, we knew the area was blessed with pure, abundant natural resources. After joining the League of Women Voters Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I learned how fragile these resources are and what’s required to protect our water, air, and soil. Some of the information is concerning, if not downright frightening.
Our lifestyle has become so intertwined with plastics that micro-plastics (broken down plastic fibers) are now ubiquitous. They’re in our food chain, the air we breathe, and our bodies, and are even found in the unborn. Cancers are rising, especially in young people, while fertility rates are dropping because humans, like most living creatures, cannot process the endocrine disruptors in plastics.
