• OurTragicUniverse
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    387 months ago

    And in 4 billion years, that layer of microplastics will have condensed down into fuel for the next creatures to annihilate their atmosphere with. Circle of life.

  • uphillbothways
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    7 months ago

    Did those trees, before there were decomposers, have access to nitrogen fixing bacteria? Where were they getting ammonium and nitrate?
    Just stuff built up from lightning, nitrogen and oxygen?

    Edit: Looks like land dwelling soil forming bacteria started in the Cambrian. Then, in the Ordovician the first land plants. Then, in the Silurian vascular plants and trees appeared.

  • @Epicurus0319@sopuli.xyz
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    97 months ago

    So basically… plastics are the new wood? Surface-dwelling sea creatures suffered from ingesting ”microfibers?”

  • @flyingjake@lemmy.one
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    87 months ago

    Well I feel like I acquired both a new point of view and a chuckle with this one, so thank you Internet friend 😌