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  • bmk4447 minutes ago
    Reminds me of the classic George Carlin bit:<p>&quot;The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”
    • Joel_Mckay25 minutes ago
      &quot;Saving the Planet&quot; (George Carlin)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;7W33HRc1A6c?si=HqyW8mys0uNBuFdW&amp;t=147" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;7W33HRc1A6c?si=HqyW8mys0uNBuFdW&amp;t=147</a><p>Humorous, but not inaccurate about what climate change means to primates. =3
      • SoftTalker14 minutes ago
        The planet is fine; the people are fucked!
  • canadiantim10 minutes ago
    This has been known for decades already. In the historical records we&#x27;ll be known as the plastic age
    • criddell5 minutes ago
      The article says it&#x27;s already being called the <i>plasticene</i>.
  • ninininino1 hour ago
    Plastic also visibly in rocks on the beach: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Z5UoVDxjG1g" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Z5UoVDxjG1g</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;article&#x2F;rocks-made-plastic-found-hawaiian-beach" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;article&#x2F;rocks-made-plastic-f...</a><p>And invisibly in trees: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waldwissen.net&#x2F;en&#x2F;forest-ecology&#x2F;climate-and-environment&#x2F;forest-trees-also-take-up-nanoplastics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waldwissen.net&#x2F;en&#x2F;forest-ecology&#x2F;climate-and-env...</a><p>Pick your favorite Disney movie, the beautiful nature in it is now infused with plastic.
    • vatsachak13 minutes ago
      Plastic is a source of energy. I am sure that we need to gameplan for a post-plastic world in the future after some bacteria&#x2F;fungi learn to eat it
    • dvh1 hour ago
      It&#x27;s our own K-T layer
      • testfoobar37 minutes ago
        &quot;The Plastocene – Plastic in the sedimentary record&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.egu.eu&#x2F;divisions&#x2F;ssp&#x2F;2019&#x2F;01&#x2F;09&#x2F;the-plastocene-plastic-in-the-sedimentary-record&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.egu.eu&#x2F;divisions&#x2F;ssp&#x2F;2019&#x2F;01&#x2F;09&#x2F;the-plastocene...</a>