Inside the Rockpool Shrimp There Is a Dying Star
An abridged version of this essay is published on the Dark Mountain website.
‘Plastic comes from oil and like everything else on Earth, the origins of oil are deeply bound up with reactions forged between interstellar molecules and clouds of gas and dust in space.’ In the latest post in our water series, Karen Lloyd draws a beautiful comparison between the plastic pollution of her local seashore inhabitants and the shifting patterns of the cosmos.