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Letter: Rocks made of garbage, what a legacy!

Published 27 August 2025

From Helmut Krueger, Haar, Germany

Now we have realised that we messed up Earth by changing the climate and overpopulating the planet, we cling to the thought that we have left some traces that will tell future alien visitors or intelligent cockroaches about us: we created the Anthropocene, even if it is just radioactive waste, microplastics and rocks formed from garbage(19 July, p 24). What a legacy!

Issue no. 3558 published 30 August 2025

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