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I'm super excited for all the plastic in the world and all the devices that we use everyday to rot because we developed a bacteria that eats it and now your iPh
by grogenaut 3y ago
I'm super excited for all the plastic in the world and all the devices that we use everyday to rot because we developed a bacteria that eats it and now your iPhone internals have an infection and your phone just disintegrates and the steering wheel falls off your car
- rTX5CMRXIfFG 3y agoWould you do me a kindness and let me know later if sarcasm gets through people who can’t care about the environment a bit more than their own consumption? I’ve tried reason but it never works.
- xkekjrktllss 3y agoMaterial security is the best predictor of environmentalist political priorities. Nothing else even comes close.
- lazide 3y agoIf you think about it, there are strong evolutionary incentives for people to take from someone/something else rather than reduce their own consumption voluntarily. Hell, it’s what all ecosystems are built on!
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 3y ago[flagged]
- Loughla 3y agoRingworld. That's the basic idea of the underlying society wide failure in that book.
- calamari4065 3y agoExcept that bacterium was introduced as a weapon specifically to destroy that society. Weren't they trying to take control of the ring once society collapsed?
- sbierwagen 3y agoNot precisely. https://larryniven.net/puppeteer/puppol.shtml https://larryniven.net/puppeteer/puppol.shtml >The Puppeteers mistook the City Builders to be the Ringworld's engineers and become suddenly afraid to encounter so powerful a species. The Puppeteers examined the Ringworld's superconductor material and created a technophytic bacterium to seed the Ringworld and destroy the superconductor. The strategy was to follow the probes with trading ships and come to the profitable rescue of the City Builders. However, the Puppeteers soon realized that the City Builders could not possibly have created the Ringworld, and discovered several Pak artifacts. The Puppeteers feared the Pak above nearly all other threats. >The Conservatives took control of the government and the Ringworld project was abandoned. Puppeteers don't colonize. They trade, and destroy threats, but the Conservative majority doesn't actually want to own or operate the Ringworld. (Remember, they're flying through space on a rosette of five planets... with over a trillion puppeteers crowded onto just one of them, and the other four covered with automated farms. Elbow room isn't something a herd animal values.)
- LoganDark 3y agoThis is now one of my favorite comments.
- feoren 3y agoLots of organisms eat wood and cotton. How often does your furniture and clothing just randomly disintegrate? You really cannot imagine a middle ground between these products existing for millions of years vs. your steering wheel falling apart while you're driving?
- ClumsyPilot 3y ago> furniture and clothing just randomly disintegrate? Quite frequently, if you have moths . Like it used to be a major problem before the insect apocalypse and we used to kill them with poisob
- dTal 3y agoI unironically am. Humans are not responsible enough to control a cheap material that doesn't biodegrade; it's everywhere now, including our own blood stream, because we took a material of near-infinite durability and used it for disposable packaging. Madness. We have lost the right to it.
- amatecha 3y agoNature is kinda moving in that direction anyways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideonella_sakaiensis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideonella_sakaiensis , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Organisms_breaking_down_plastic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Organisms_breaking_do...