New rock types are forming from trash and pollution

[Basman]

Pollution and human industry is leaving its mark on nature surprisingly quickly.

Plastiglomerates, stones fused with plastic waste, delineate human development and history into the geography.

[Jannes]

Thats interesting that in some places nature reintegrates the waste we create. 

Well for toxic chemicals for example this doesnt just happen or it only happens after the chemicals did a lot of damage. 

But yeah in some cases it might not be that bad. 

When we dump something in nature we usually see it as pure pollution, but nature doesnt necessarily have the same bias as us, for example sunken ships can become a rich new environement for animals, way more then the ocean floor would have allowed for. 

[Jannes]

 

[Jannes]

 

 

[Jannes]

 

Human beings build structures informed by long-term intelligent thinking. Few other structures on Earth are built like that. Most things in nature are means in and of themselves.

So in a way, the gain and flourishing of marine life, after a ship sinks to the ocean floor, comes from primitive intelligence polluting the intelligence of the environement that humans built. It flurishes as long as these structures—originally shaped by long-term intelligence—slowly transform into means in and of themselves.

Edited July 19 by Jannes