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Maybe?
Evolution takes a long time and unless we are dealing with microbes and fungi, generations are counted in years or decades.
Is 60 million years not too long?
On the grand scale of time it isn’t
I wholly expect that some time from now humans will gather to talk about the moral implications of letting creatures that depend on microplastics go extinct due to our efforts to remove plastics from the environment or if we should be producing plastics to keep them alive.
Bold of you to assume we’ll still be around at that point.
I’d argue we’re like roaches. Most of us may die, but we’ll survive.
…only a few million years
David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future takes a look at the idea
…or go extinct.
