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Andreas Vlach • 2 cards
The Anthropocene
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human-manufactured plastics have found their way into every crevice, even in the deepest trenches of the ocean and the air above the Arctic.27 In the Anthropocene, many human activities become so large they are hard to fathom. In the Anthropocene, enough plastic has been made that were it cling film it could wrap around the Earth completely.28 In t
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