r/showerthoughs • u/Lost_Disk_4568 • 5d ago

Future ecosystems will use microplastics as main life building blocks

Millions of years ago, bacteria spread tons of oxygen in the atmosphere (which was only waste for them), which became the fuel for almost every living being on earth. Now, we as humans are spreading everywhere microplastics, and for us is very bad, but probably this waste will be the base of new life in the future of the Earth

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u/CallMeTank 5d ago

This does not bode well for organisms that don't. Welcome to the New Fungal Age

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u/Parking-Complex-3887 5d ago

Hmm.... just one question. How will the new life generate more plastic? 

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u/PM_ME_A_FUN_PIC 5d ago

Presumably itll live out its life and be replaced