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Man decides it’s just easier to become climate change denier than waste his life washing out food containers (newsthump.com)

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[–] snownyte@kbin.social 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The world isn't going to end by nuclear warfare.

It's not going to end by a great famine.

It's not going to end by an asteroid.

It's not going to end by a cataclysmic shift of some sort involving space that's out of our control.

It's going to end by plastic.

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago

Can you explain?

[–] Tiltinyall@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

You know, I was thinking about this and; Since plastic seems to be the easiest thing to synthesize given the resources provided, logic would dictate that earths natural evolutionary course would be implementing decay resistant shells for it's inhabitants. Take the Arthropods evolutionary advantage for example. Earth is evolving too, and it's next step is an armored shell. For what though...