Given the time it takes to biodegrade: In the End, there will be plastic. Even if production were to stop today it would still be with us in the fourth millennium. The legacy of the modern world of, let us say, the last five hundred years, is a warming atmosphere preternaturally laden with CO2; a planet with a plastic bestrewn surface, plastic saturated seas, and with winds, waves, rocks and tides grinding brightly colored polymers into toxic grains, fated to be embedded in the geologic layers of the Anthropocene.
It is a legacy based on the manipulation of those looted hydrocarbons, created in ages past and now, in the modern world, transformed into multiple agents of biospheric destruction. This tragic inheritance is founded on a misunderstanding of our place in the world - a misunderstanding that now, perhaps, with its consequences fully apparent, we are beginning to comprehend.
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