microplastics by muffy

"It is not improbable that sooner or later a way will be discovered to prepare artificial fibers from synthetic high-molecular products, because the strength and elasticity of natural fibers depend exclusively on their macro-molecular structure – i.e., on their long thread-shaped molecules." - Hermann Staudinger, "The insoluble polystyrene" (1936)

And so emerged - out of the roiling stew of petrochemical cartels, Nazi engineers and occult folklorists, Cuban counterrevolutionaries, gin-soaked spooks and drug traffickers, John Bircher textile scions, Californian computer geeks and their DoD backers, Dallas soda bottlers, dead or duped presidents and patsies, strung-out hippies and mind control shrinks, military contractors, and the gushing lifeblood of slush funds - plastics. Its material, historical, and spiritual detritus clogged our rivers, oceans, veins and organs. Did the gut flora of a wax moth caterpillar save the Earth? You can find the answer at your local library.