Given that the production/consumption of plastic shows no sign of slowing down, it's not science fiction to imagine how this state of affairs can go very very w

Given that the production/consumption of plastic shows no sign of slowing down, it's not science fiction to imagine how this state of affairs can go very very wrong. Nick Bostrom's "global catastrophic risk" does after all include plenty of scenarios where we severely misjudge or ignore the long-term cascading effects of technology. It'd be ironic if plastic became the example that ends up driving us into extinction.