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Bacteria evolve fast, and hydrocarbon-metabolizing bacteria are already known, e.g.:

I expect they'll be common well before 10,000 years. It's certainly an easier problem than getting CO2 out of the atmosphere.

How is hoping that whole new species evolve and spread without changing ecosystems even remotely an easy problem?

Because those species already exist and we are changing the ecosystem (by introducing micro-plastics everywhere)?

My point is that changing ecosystems will have unforeseen consequences...