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An historical period characterised by the use of plastic and ecological collapse
Today’s newsletter is about an eventual societal collapse due to a plastic (and economic) cataclysm, and how life sciences (Scientists Used AI to Create an Enzyme That Breaks Down Plastic in a Week Instead of a Century) might help us in the future.
The scientific name for the human species Homo sapiens is Latin for “wise man”. It comes…