There have been two articles in the media in the last few days which relate to our legacy for the future...The first related to the final programme in Iain Stewart's latest series "How Earth Made Us".
It included a piece on the legacy that humans will leave for future generations in the rocks of the earth.
The plastic that we use finds its way into the oceans, where it accumulates in large gyres, and then settles to the ocean floor where it goes into ocean sediments. These are then moved through sea floor spreading to the edges of the oceans where they are subducted and form part of the newly formed geology: a plastic strata....
The second was a short piece by Jeremy Paxman in the G2 section of 'The Guardian'. bemoaning the litter that was dropped around the country, and saying that our legacy for future generations would be coke cans and crisp packets...
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