• @[email protected]
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    145 months ago

    Let’s make microplancton plastic toys.

    Wait. What about microplastics in the oceans ?

      • @[email protected]
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        35 months ago

        They won’t. There are bacteria that eat plastic. There is no path* to creating oil or coal again, biology is too good at breaking hydrocarbon precursors

        *Except by deliberate human industry

        • Tlaloc_Temporal
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          14 months ago

          If enough greenhouse gasses get released by this breakdown of hydrocarbons, and the temperature rises enough, the oceans may stop circulating and loose all their oxygen. The resulting die off and anoxic environment might be enough to form a massive new layer of tar and proto-oil with some luck.