I'm more worried about the longterm. As organisms get better at breaking down plastic manufacturers will start putting nasty chemicals in plastics to prevent premature breakdown.
That’s why we need increased government oversight of corporate behavior in general. Fingers crossed this becomes politically feasible as younger generations enter a greater position of power. I have hope that these externalities can be solved as long as the root cause of unregulated money chasing is addressed.
The problem is that younger generations are just as impressionable as previous ones, but now they have a surveillance state and advertising apperatus aimed squarely at them.
So now young men are pissed at the world for being not a fairyland like they were promised, and are getting absolutely riled up by grifters who are the first step in the right wing recruitment funnel and now millions of young men think the reason the world sucks is women, immigrants, and having emotions.
