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[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

Or one could view it as regardless of efforts at future prevention, we still need to pick up from the past. If we stopped every scrap of plastic in production today that pile of junk would still be floating about for the next millennia.