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Comment on Microplastic-eating plankton may be worsening crisis in oceans, say scientists

I’m confused as well. I thought the idea was that things that ate the plastic would then die and sink to the bottom of the ocean thereby taking it out of the environment.

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recursive_recursion@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

sink to the bottom of the ocean

would mean that they still exist in the environment

kinda feels like what’s been hapening is the perpetuation of news that ingrains “out of sight out of mind” mentality

btw this isn’t a critisism against you and more with news organizations

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- antizero99@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I thought the nuance of what I was saying would be recognized by communities like this.
  
  Yes, technically it still exists in the environment. Nothing ia ever made to not exist. What I meant was that it would no longer be able to ingested by any creatures. This is after all where our petroleum deposits came from, millenia of plankton and other creatures dying and being covered up by other matter.
  
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  - recursive_recursion@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    ahh I see
    thank you for the clarification as it seems I misunderstood
    
    What I meant was that it would no longer be able to be ingested by any creatures.
    
    fair enough, this I can definitely get behind
    
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