@GoatsLive Asteroids and micrometeoroids are not the problem here - that collision risk goes linearly with the number of objects in low orbit. The collision risk between objects in low orbit goes quadratically with the number of objects, making a collisional cascade possible.
As @sundogplanets has explained many many times.
@michael_w_busch Thanks, but she was able to answer for herself. I'm a nuclear physicist myself, but was keeping it simple for others reading the thread.