Microplastics is the public health issue behind To Love Like Venus. Here is a recent breakdown, where we are finding it in the human body, and what it might be doing to us.
https://youtu.be/v2w3zWzADgo?si=Y0FTCMdxHCKvHtCu
When not in NYC, the book highlights its effect in Greece specifically, because our gaze is often there as pleasure, vacation, beauty. Here is how it’s being found there, in its idyllic seas. Reported by Reuters by Stelios Misinas.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/mussels-reveal-growing-microplastic-pollution-greeces-prized-seas-2025-11-03/