Scientists find ‘plastic rocks’ on remote island
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#2What’s so disturbing now?
We’ve been polluting the planet with plastic for half a century. How bad does it need to get?
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/3/13/east_palestine_plasti...
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#3 What also floats in water?
Bread
Apples
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#4I'm just playing games. I know it's plastic rock
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#5Given enough time, nature will evolve towards a more plastic accepting genome. Hopefully it will be fast enough!
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#6I'm just playing games. I know it's plastic rock
Next up on the playlist, plastic beach (Gorillaz, 2010)
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#7The amount of plastic we use is sad. When I go to the grocery store, the apples are wrapped in plastic, broccoli wrapped in plastic, baked goods are in plastic, plastic everything.
Why do they do this? I'm going to wash the produce when I get home, I don't need a plastic wrapper on my broccoli just to throw it out immediately and then was the vegetable anyway.
Re: Scientists find ‘plastic rocks’ on remote island
#8The amount of plastic we use is sad. When I go to the grocery store, the apples are wrapped in plastic, broccoli wrapped in plastic, baked goods are in plastic, plastic everything. Why do they do this? I'm going to wash the produce when I get home, I don't need a plastic wrapper on my broccoli just to throw it out immediately and then was the vegetable anyway.
Plastic is cheap, durable, and water-resistant, that's really all there is to it. When individual items are all packaged like this you can cut corners in a lot of other places.
Until there's an equally cheap equally effective alternative plastic will be used unless we regulate against it, it's simply too convenient.
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#9Given enough time, nature will evolve towards a more plastic accepting genome. Hopefully it will be fast enough!
As George Carlin once said, for all we know, humans are nature's way of manufacturing plastic.
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#10stuff like this makes me question how accurate our general model of the world is.
If plastic rocks can form (plastic being I have a farm and the land will change FEET in elevation from year to year. We have a lot of rain, but it’s hard to wrap my head that geography move slowly when my hillside has changed so rapidly.