The Plastic Age

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thelonious T
thelonious Jan 7, 2021 18:38:58

Interesting article if a bit depressing.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/iron-age-in-the-plastic-age-anthropocene-signatures-at-castell-henllys/716DAC98547C4A4D971E2E916589B8A3

T thelonious
thelonious Jan 7, 2021 19:27:30
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Thinking still about this. Thought I'd post this link too. I watched this a few days back. What a shit world we are leaving for future archaeologists to dig up.

The Plastic Nile (it's nothing about old stuff so sorry for posting)

https://youtu.be/1uZVx_dHXqY

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drewbhoy Jan 9, 2021 14:34:00
Replying to thelonious

Just saw the BBC report for that and posted it - you'd think buckets hadn't been invented :-(