don't misunderstand me - i clearly try very hard to keep my waste down, and support any programs intended to increase recycling rates.

but, one of the reasons i'm alienated from a broader activist movement is that it instinctively takes inherently religious worldviews - even when it thinks it is taking a scientific one. the right does this, too. it's a reflection of the underlying - and very wrong - axiom system that our society erects itself on. these are stories we hear as children and never entirely discard.

we think that the chemistry of life has changed on our planet several times. we think that the oxygen in our atmosphere is largely the result of biological waste processes, and that it actually led to a mass extinction, before life evolved a way to turn the thing that was poisoning it into the thing that sustained it.

this was created in a lab, but we know this already exists in the wild. there are already plastic-eating microbes on the loose, breaking down the environmental plastic. if we continue to convert the world's carbon into plastic, life will evolve to find a way to utilize it. and, that's not a fantastic projection - that's science.

https://www.popsci.com/bacteria-enzyme-plastic-waste