Things in the oceans evolving to eat plastics faster than anticipated?
Guess we're in for a fun series of ecological cascades.
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The world will keep getting weirder every step of the way.
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There is no way to model the sheer disintegration. It will not behave as anticipated.
It can't.
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Whether someone takes an optimistic, pessimistic or avoidant approach to the scale of things to come, expectations will not be met.
There are too many dynamic variables in play, and too many interdependencies.
We're orders and orders of magnitude out of our league.