The planet will be here, it will incorporate the plastic in some way, like it does with everything. The issue was <i>never</i> about the planet itself. Planets don&#x27;t have minds (that we know of) and don&#x27;t care. They just are. It&#x27;s only us, humans, who care about how the planet looks like - because we can only survive in a tiny band of possible planet states, and live comfortably in even tinier band.