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[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”

Plastic… asshole.”

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

You pass the butter

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

This reads like some edgy chud's rant about why environmentalism is cringe

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I only pulled the last few paragraphs from Carlin's bit, I think the tone changes a little bit with the full dialogue.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

"Humanity could be a biological bootloader for earth plus plastic"

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