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… @hole.”
-George Carlin
The new planet Plearth is born.
As a future geologist might say...
“This speckled layer here marks the edge of
the Plasticene era.”
Nothing is gained or lost on earth. Matter changes state.
Homo Sapiens Plasticus.
What a great quote!
And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable,
I’ve picked a lot of old plastic bags and the like out of leaf piles where they been for a year or two, and they are disintegrating from the UV if nothing else.
Envirowacko propaganda
Exactly. Plastic has always been here, since before there were humans. The elements which compose plastic were just in different locations and rearranged differently. In fact, when you get right down to it, plastic is just as organic as tofu, mung beans, kombucha tea, or a porterhouse steak.
As an amateur biologist I have seen countless examples of plastic used as nesting material, shelter, fertilizer, reef building, cover for baby fish, algae scrubbers, beneficial bacteria stations, and much much more.
The rare occasions of turtles, birds, and fish becoming entangled in plastic are infinitesimal compared to the extraordinary value plastic adds to the environment.
The author is, of course, also correct about third world waste disposal. In first world countries waste is land filled in sealed containers impervious to erosion and ground water. These massive sealed containers provide a rich source of mining operations for desirable materials at such point as it becomes financially viable to do so.
Like everything else about the environmental movement, plastic is a red herring designed to bankrupt advancing technology in favor of primitivism. It is, in a word, ignorant.