07-28-2018, 07:17 AM
Plastic flotsam in the seas may have no obvious connection to global warming except as examples of trashing the planet. They have no obvious nutritive value to any forms of life (although some bacteria evolved to feed off nylon, a material introduced in the 1930s). Plastics that contain fluorine or chlorine that we take for granted (including Teflon and PVC) might never degrade except with the release of some very nasty substances.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.