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Downvotes won't change nature. You literally can't know what the consequences of plastic metabolism would be. History shows us that introducing new species wit
by hdfbdtbcdg 7y ago
Downvotes won't change nature.
You literally can't know what the consequences of plastic metabolism would be. History shows us that introducing new species with novel abilities to an ecosystem has far reaching, unforeseen, often devastating and usually irreversible consequences. Why would we risk this? Plastic digesting bacteria would be utterly novel and completely outside our control.
To make confident predictions about species that don't even exist yet is just hubris.
- Retric 7y ago> To make confident predictions about species that don't even exist yet is just hubris. I am willing to wager rather large sums of money they are not going to violate the conservation of energy. Unknown, does not necessarily mean unknowable. That said, I said nothing about their impact on ecosystems just the majority of plastics in use by humans.