Wow that's gotta be a record for fastest evolutionary change in response to man made disasters. Good work jellyfish!
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2024
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If I was a hungry sea turtle, I would simply eat the jellyfish instead of the plastic.
If I was a hungry sea turtle, I'd open the jars to check which one of them has jellyfish inside.
Hey, that's cheating!
Save jellyfish by polluting the oceans with plastic
Now imagine you're a hungry sea turtle.
I already do that every day. What's next?
Lets make bags out of jellyfish!
Let the jellyfish out
The answer seems obvious. Introduce the turtles to Kraft Mac and Cheese. Its better than jellyfish and still comes in a paperboard box.
Mac and cheese? How do you not know turtles love pizza?
The ones that moved to NYC, maybe. But no one likes soggy, salt-watered crust.
Be a rebel by also doing your best to avoid the trash in the first place.
And most importantly, work to disassemble the systems that normalize and support the production of the wasteful and toxic materials we now call trash.
Are you suggesting that we should burn down companies and factories? Cuz I'd never agree to meet you at a specific time and place so that we could disassemble the means of production and effectively delete entire toxic cogs of the economy.
In fact, tell me precisely where and when you plan on meeting so that I can definitely avoid you.
Reduce, reuse, recycle, revolt
It's really easy to tell the difference. The jellyfish is the one that hurts you immediately when you try to swallow it and the plastic bag is the one that causes problems in 1.5-3 minutes with catastrophic problems around 10 minutes.
Not if you're a sea turtle. They eat jelly fish and are immune to their venom
Turtle is ging to szay hungry. It can open neither of them, because it's missing those precious opposable thumbs.
Um, I think trying to swallow a whole bottle like that may present bigger problems
Easy. Replace the turtle with more plastic bags.
Those sickos bottle up the food for the sea turtles and now they're gonna starve!
The point is that they'll sell the bottles to the turtles. The turtles are gonna have to work to earn it. For dozens of millions of years they've been freeloading, receiving handouts from the sea. They're finally gonna contribute to the economy.
Also imagine being in the water with all those jellyfish the turtle didn't eat.