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Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 16 days ago

It might not be too long before animals evolve a rudimentary mechanism to filter microplastics

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It might not be too long before animals evolve a rudimentary mechanism to filter microplastics

Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 16 days ago
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    Or incorporate it. Basically what George Carlin said. Evolution will witness a new paradigm of life plus plastic and will keep evolving as if nothing matters.

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      It took 60m years for fungi to evolve to break down lignin (trees) and the eventual oxidation of the lignin decay products has caused the most rapid climate shift we have ever seen

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        That next 60 will breeze by as well

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        What kind of climate shift are you referring to? Like when fungi produce organic acids and aromatic compounds etc, how is that related to shifting the climate in any way?

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          The formation of fossil fuels that then got burned starting in the Industrial Revolution causing our current climate change

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            Oh, so that was fungi? TIL!

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        Are you referring to fossil fuels? A recent video from Howtown is messing with me.

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          Yup

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