• Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    That’s enough time for us to evolve into carbon dioxide plastic eating beings, isn’t it?

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      5 months ago

      For something completely new like that 50k years is not all that much.

      Perhaps enough time for the existing plastic eating bacteria to spread across the world, tho a lot of plastics are buried deep in soil already, so artefacts might survive. Same as with wood, before the wood/cellulose eating bacteria got all over the place, dead trees just for buried. So at high pressure plastic might turn once again into oil.