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Plastic was commercialized 70 years ago. The world ran fine for a very long time without it.
by hyperbovine 7y ago
Plastic was commercialized 70 years ago. The world ran fine for a very long time without it.
- Itaxpica 7y agoWith significantly fewer people, most of whom (on a global scale) lived significantly worse and shorter lives. Like it or not, the modern world is built on plastics, and undoing that will require either major technological jumps from what we have now, or a LOT of people dying.
- s0rce 7y agoThe world ran a long time with iodine supplements, antibiotics, water fluoridation, doesn't mean we should go back to the dark ages.