Just heard on the radio that contact lenses being thrown in the toilet are ending up as microplastics in the sea. Humans are extremely bad at not killing things. We start killing things the moment we're born. Earth is so royally fucked.
@thor
Carnivores are also very effective at killing things. I think the issue is more that people in large groups tend to be stupid, defining stupid in the way mentioned here:
http://www.zoon.cc/stupid/
@skypage We are carnivores, but we don't even have to make an effort to make species go extinct.
@thor
It's not really an effort, though. It's just apathetic carelessness
@B4x4 This was a BBC radio report. Perhaps these are caught in Norwegian treatment plants, but they're definitely not caught everywhere. But no matter how good the filtering system, the toilet isn't the correct place for contact lenses. At least that's what the experts on the show said, adding that they hadn't realized that people were throwing them in the toilet, and were going to look at ways of making it clearer how to correctly dispose of them.
@thor
Carnivores are also very effective at killing things. I think the issue is more that people in large groups tend to be stupid, defining stupid in the way mentioned here:
http://www.zoon.cc/stupid/