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This doesn't undo all the stuff that already is in the ground and rivers everywhere.
by blueflow 3y ago
This doesn't undo all the stuff that already is in the ground and rivers everywhere.
- FredPret 3y agoAfter a long time hanging around, some organism might evolve that eats it though
- blueflow 3y agoWhich happened for all fossils already and they are still there.
- FredPret 3y agoFair point, although not all of them, and not all of those that do remain. If styrofoam ever starts rotting, maybe the styro-philes will eat 100% of each cup and poop out only completely normal organic matter. Nobody will ever find it!
- hutzlibu 3y agoCan we develope such a microorganism please?
- InvaderFizz 3y agoWorms were discovered that eat styrofoam. There was a lot about it going on the news last summer[0]. 0: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/superworms-eat-and-survive-on-polystyrene/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/superworms-eat-an...
- hutzlibu 3y agoThat is something, but apparently not quite what I want: "Rinke and his colleagues are not suggesting that superworms should be released into landfills or polluted landscapes to munch through mountains of plastic"
- ekianjo 3y agoStill all there compared to what quantity exactly? Ever hard of the gazillions of fossil fuels?
- blueflow 3y agoThey still are there to detect them. The question was whether our fossil records would be detectable.
- TechBro8615 3y agoOr a second industrial civilization would use it to power their cars...
- c22 3y agoPerhaps there could follow a movement to undo all prior impacts out of an ethical motivation.