Write up in @theguardian.com of a new book looking at humanities legacy in the geological record 🧪⚒️ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/22/technofossils-how-plastic-bags-and-chicken-bones-will-become-our-eternal-legacy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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In '85 prescient @ursulaleguin.bsky.social named our #Anthropocene’s #plastiglomerate “fumo balls”
“Fumo is a word for concretions, usually whitish or yellowish..of ancient industrial origin..some beaches are almost entirely composed of small particles of fumo”.
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