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This all true, but wood still burned. You think forest fires are bad now? Imagine several centuries of dry timber stacked up waiting for a lightning strike.
Coal is this, except it’s largely fronds, which the trees shed three same way modern ones shed leaves. IIRC the trees were related to ferns. Before that there were big fungus pillars that served as trees.
Hypothetically, if we were alive during that time period. We would have microwood in our balls and not microplastic?
If we were alive back then, either we took those bacteria with us, or we would cease being alive fairly quickly; I don’t think our intestines work without them anymore
Hypothetically, if were absent of contaminating the environment by not having that bacteria and instead used nano technology to break down food.
Would we still have microwood in our balls?
Unlike trees, plastic is not self-renewing. So when humanity goes extinct, there will no longer be a steady supply of plastic for these microbes. They will crash just as quickly (geologically speaking) as they arose.
Every species started out as an invasive species.
