I'm not so worried about humans maliciously trying to destroy the world. There are few who would do so intentionally.
Far more worrying is when people do what is easiest for them, regardless of the cost to their neighbour.
A mask collects particles, including the COVID-19 virus. Please can we work together to pick up the masks from the street?
Worms will eat the masks. Bats will eat the worms. And the bats will give COVID back to us.
We're not responsible for world-scale Epic issues: plastic in the ocean, climate change, pandemics. We are fully responsible for the Issues we see. Please, let's clean the streets while we cycle/walk dogs/skateboard and the butterfly effect will help to fix the bigger problems too :)
I haven't seen any science on this, but I'd guess there is about a 0% chance of human->mask->worm->bat covid transmission. Do you have any basis for this fear? Obviously mask pollution is a bit of a problem, but not so much for risk of covid contamination.
Don't worry about worms, it's already in deer and I would assume a large number of other non-human animal populations already. It's obviously still in bats as well, SARS-CoV-3 is inevitable unless there's some sort of mass killing of bats, but it might not end up being very bad or transmissible.
Bats are extremely far down the list of things we have to worry about, when we continue to have millions of infected people who proudly and angrily spew virus-infested air particles uncontrolled into their communities because they think they know better.
Far more worrying is when people do what is easiest for them, regardless of the cost to their neighbour.
A mask collects particles, including the COVID-19 virus. Please can we work together to pick up the masks from the street?
Worms will eat the masks. Bats will eat the worms. And the bats will give COVID back to us.
We're not responsible for world-scale Epic issues: plastic in the ocean, climate change, pandemics. We are fully responsible for the Issues we see. Please, let's clean the streets while we cycle/walk dogs/skateboard and the butterfly effect will help to fix the bigger problems too :)