On Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 6:17:18 PM UTC-6, [email protected] wrote: > > > > On Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 7:42:30 PM UTC, Lawrence Crowell wrote: >> >> On Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 12:55:04 PM UTC-6, Jason wrote: >>> >>> >>> I can understand how in the darwinian sense, it could makes predators >>> and prey less successful. But in the sense of humans, who have >>> technologically escaped most of the darwinian pressures, could this idea >>> not improve life on earth? >>> >> >> The human species since the time of Australopithecus has worked to remove >> itself from the Darwinian world. With the development of stone tools and >> fire our early hominid ancestors took themselves off the menu. In turn they >> put more on their menu. We have been able to figure out how to untie any >> environmental constraint upon us and to further generate more positive feed >> backs. The results have not been an improvement of life on Earth. It has >> been rather the demolition of life as we replace naturally occurring >> systems with trash. The idea we are somehow improving things only might >> operate for ourselves, and frankly it might be argued it is for a subset of >> humans. In effect we are engineering the sixth mass extinction of life. The >> picture below illustrates an Albatross that has ingested plastic in the >> oceans and died. In the end this is the final legacy of Homo sapiens. >> >> LC >> > > Lawrence; dire situation to be sure, and we're losing precious time with > the moron in the WH. Any chance that Darwinian evolution will solve the > problem by selecting out species that can learn NOT to ingest plastics? AG >
Darwinian evolution or extinction will select out the species that produces the plastic. The plastic will then degrade or become buried. Curiously plastic and other materials will be buried away in geological layers for hundreds of millions of years. Life on Earth will be doing just fine 25 million years from now, in fact up to 500 million years or more. We will be fossils in sedimentary rock, along with our plastic stuff. LC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
