Lots of species evolved to survive the cretaceous paleogene extinction event, it still doesn't mean you should go on throwing asteroids on people because eventually some mouse will survive and reproduce to eat the plant who survived and reproduced.
No. But it does mean not having a panic attack (not saying you are, just in general) and allowing psychopathic environmentalists to enforce ridiculous policy that, in aggregate, harms more than it helps. That nature evolves to give us a helping hand is an absolutely beautiful thing.
Nature doesn't evolve in order to do anything. Evolution is not a helping hand it's a process, the hollowed out chronological pathways in the ocean of death. And what eats plastic might as well eat us, or our foodstuffs.
> Nature doesn't evolve in order to do anything. Evolution is not a helping hand it's a process, the hollowed out chronological pathways in the ocean of death.
By that logic lizards and bugs didn't evolve to change their pigment defensively to avoid predators.
Some others have mentioned it, but it could honestly be a worse scenario if it ends up making it's way into our food because of it (more so than it already does).
Good point. In that case we should observe animals that we eat and know to eat the bugs exhibiting this behavior and see if there's a noticeable change in their biochemistry. Would be curious to what degree the composition of the plastic is broken down by the bugs digestive system vs. what lingers indefinitely.
