Forgot to mention “in my balls”.
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2026
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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?”
Plastic… asshole.
― George Carlin
“Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.”
Who didn’t realize the anointing was to be inside the frontal cortex 🤷♂️
From dust to plastic.
We all have a little bit of dinosaur inside us now! 🦕
It's like the curse of the mummy, if that mummy was tens of millions of years old... and had turned into a black liquid.
Life already breaks down hydrocarbons with the help of enzymes for foods (e.g., starch and celluose are polymers). It won't take much to evolve that mechanism to break open and digest the long chain plastic polymers, and in fact there are already bacteria and yeast that will eat some plastics. Given enough time, it will just be another food source.
I predict that in future generations we'll be in a similar race as we are today with antibiotics, only with plastics. Bacteria, yeast & fungus will infect and compromise strategic plastics like sterile medical supplies and humans will have to develop new plastics to stave off a future where material science can't rely on plastics.
BTW, I'm no petroleum shill or trying to minimize the impact plastic is likely already having in our ecosphere, but I want to put "alarming" into perspective. nanoplastics are going to do some serious damage and we should be looking for rapidly decomposing plastics made with non-petroleum source stock, but life will survive plastic (including Human life). I'm willing to bet that the ocean already has little pockets of microscopic life feeding on nanoplastic as a food source.