Title: P.E.T.’s Pets 1-3
Our micro-waste gauges our planet more accurately than our knowledge does.
This work is part of a series that deals with life forms that we will never see, even though we are their contemporaries and inhabitants of the same planet. We know that humans have only recorded a fraction of the species that exist (just over a million, it is estimated, out of well over eight million) and we recognize how a rapid extinction of species is taking place before our eyes and under our hands. It follows that there will be an enormous number of animal species that we will never know - we only would have known them if we had not caused (or at least decisively contributed to) their extinction.
Among the species that are dying out today, those that we will not get to know represent the rule, not the exception.
And yet, conversely, each of these species will have gotten to know us - or at least a part of our civilization, its furthermost messengers: our tiny waste, our microplastics. This work aims to address such encounters.
