‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/22/technofossils-how-plastic-bags-and-chicken-bones-will-become-our-eternal-legacyOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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Incredible.
Whoa! Algebraic!
George Carlin did suggest that humanity's purpose on earth was to create plastic.
Saving the Planet
https://youtu.be/09FmRNb3Krg?si=cacookjBpDTQl69I
And glass bottles.
at least glass is nontoxic
non-toxic
Years from now ( think tens of millions) paleontologists of some species will wonder about this age, and think that this was great extinction caused by a period of volcanic instability; with monkeys and some mammals overrepresented in the fossil record
"These 'sheep' animals must have been the dominant species in the archipelago formerly known as New Zealand"