Bees Are Building Nests With Our Waste Plastic 92
Daniel_Stuckey writes "In a paper published in the Ecological Society of America's journal Ecosphere, researchers from York University and the University of Guelph in Canada explained that while plastic waste has previously been shown to have devastating impacts on the environment, less attention has been given to the resourcefulness of species in the face of their changing surroundings. "Plastic waste pervades the global landscape," they wrote. "Although adverse impacts on both species and ecosystems have been documented, there are few observations of behavioral flexibility and adaptation in species, especially insects, to increasingly plastic-rich environments.""
Reminds of this from the late George Carlin... (Score:5, Funny)
"If it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”
Plastic asshole.”
Re:Not Just Bees (Score:5, Funny)
If you like your dope dealer, you can keep him.
Bees of Wal-Mart (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Reminds of this from the late George Carlin... (Score:5, Funny)
Plastic asshole.
I never expected a missing comma to redefine the meaning of life so vividly.
Re: Reminds of this from the late George Carlin... (Score:3, Funny)
Except when you're cumin.