Re:A New Blend of Rock and Plastic Is Forming on a Portugues...
by api on Monday June 24, 2019 @11:57AM
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It happened with things like lignin after their evolution in the carboniferous, but it took hundreds of millions of years. In the meantime we got a significant fraction of the Earth's fossil fuels as indigestible plant fibers were deposited and turned into rock.
We're in the early anthropocene. After a few hundred million years there might be bacteria eating away at plastic waste in the abandoned basement layers of the cybernetic hybrid post-human/AI city-organism that covers most of the planet. DNA importation from off-world organisms exposed to cosmic rays might help.
In the meantime there will be layers of anthropocene-specific minerals deposited just as the carboniferous left its own unique signature.
We're in the early anthropocene. After a few hundred million years there might be bacteria eating away at plastic waste in the abandoned basement layers of the cybernetic hybrid post-human/AI city-organism that covers most of the planet. DNA importation from off-world organisms exposed to cosmic rays might help.
In the meantime there will be layers of anthropocene-specific minerals deposited just as the carboniferous left its own unique signature.