MikeFAug 21, 2025

Corporate Greed and National Interests Torpedoed the UN Plastics Treaty

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/failed-plastics-treaty

#pollution #plastics #fossilfuels #capitalism #ecosocialism #plasticstreaty #plasticscrisis #externality #metabolicrift

Corporate Greed and National Interests Torpedoed the UN Plastics Treaty | Common Dreams

The latest round of negations show just how difficult it is to enforce humanitarian and ecological objectives which go against the interests of the oil industry and oil-producing countries.

Common Dreams
MikeFAug 21, 2025

Corporate Greed and National Interests Torpedoed the UN Plastics Treaty

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/failed-plastics-treaty

#pollution #plastics #fossilfuels #capitalism #ecosocialism #plasticstreaty #plasticscrisis #externality #metabolicrift

Corporate Greed and National Interests Torpedoed the UN Plastics Treaty | Common Dreams

The latest round of negations show just how difficult it is to enforce humanitarian and ecological objectives which go against the interests of the oil industry and oil-producing countries.

Common Dreams
MikeFAug 21, 2025

Corporate Greed and National Interests Torpedoed the UN Plastics Treaty

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/failed-plastics-treaty

#pollution #plastics #fossilfuels #capitalism #ecosocialism #plasticstreaty #plasticscrisis #externality #metabolicrift

Corporate Greed and National Interests Torpedoed the UN Plastics Treaty | Common Dreams

The latest round of negations show just how difficult it is to enforce humanitarian and ecological objectives which go against the interests of the oil industry and oil-producing countries.

Common Dreams
Show threadNonilexAug 6, 2025

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#Plastic production is set to triple by 2060, fueled by petrochemical-producing countries.

A global “#PlasticsCrisis” is costing governments & taxpayers $1.5 trillion annually as they try to cope with escalating injuries, #disability & #deaths as the substance pollutes our land, seas & bodies, acc/to a new report by leading #medical journal The Lancet.

#law #PlasticsTreaty #PlasticPollution #FossilFuels #Oceans #Climate #health #wildlife
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01447-3/abstract

Show threadteledyn 𓂀Jun 23, 2025

@AskPippa @medmastodon

So in a sense they can really make the #PlasticsCrisis headache go away?

John EnglartOct 31, 2024
Greatest respect to UN Secretary General who continues to push and prod for action addressing the #ClimateCrisis, #BiodiversityCrisis and #PlasticsCrisis, let alone speaking on the injustices in war situations like Gaza.
teledyn 𓂀Aug 8, 2024

Here is an unexpected candidate for #monsterdon if only because, looking beyond the title to the subject, this film could have been made yesterday with this script, but it wasn't, it was made FIFTY YEARS AGO.
#climateAction #plasticscrisis #anthropocene #massextinction #nostradamus #theydidntlistenthen #theyarentlisteningnow #perhapstheyneverwill

Nosutoradamusu No Daiyogen/Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974) (Japanese w/ English Subtitles) : Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/NosutoradamusuNoDaiyogen1974

Nosutoradamusu No Daiyogen/Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974) (Japanese w/ English Subtitles) : Toho : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

From Wikipedia:Prophecies of Nostradamus (ノストラダムスの大予言 Nosutoradamusu no daiyogen) is a 1974 disaster film by Toshio Masuda,...

Internet Archive
John EnglartMay 4, 2024

The Plastic Industry’s Latest Delay Tactic: “Plastic Offsets”
It’s modeled on carbon offsets. It has a lot of the same problems.

In depth article in the New Republic on the rise of 'Plastics Offsets', instead of researching plastics alternatives and reducing plastics production.

Well worth reading.

https://newrepublic.com/article/181204/plastic-offsets-credits-recycling

#plastics #PlasticsCrisis #PlasticsOffsets #offsets #plasticsTreaty

What the Hell Are “Plastic Offsets”?

The plastics industry’s latest ploy to continue filling the world with junk

The New Republic
Dr. Melanie BergmannApr 29, 2024
❗️This is a key message from science: To effectively tackle the #PlasticsCrisis, we need to reduce the production of primary #plastics! Plastic does not go away,so it accumulates on our planet. If burned, it increases emissions of GHG & highly toxic fumes & residues.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-prisms-plastics/article/primary-plastic-polymers-urgently-needed-upstream-reduction/84ACFD0CBBA182EC61AC26C061C4E6AC
Primary plastic polymers: Urgently needed upstream reduction | Cambridge Prisms: Plastics | Cambridge Core

Primary plastic polymers: Urgently needed upstream reduction - Volume 2

Cambridge Core
John EnglartApr 26, 2024
I’m following the negotiations in Ottawa for a #PlasticsTreaty at #INC4.
Like Climate conferences #fossilfuel and petrochemical delegates are now a substantial number to influence the outcomes. #PlasticsCrisis #Microplastics https://takvera.blogspot.com/2024/04/negotiations-for-global-plastics-treaty.html
Negotiations for Global Plastics Treaty 4th meeting underway in Ottawa

Writings on climate change, sea level rise, ocean acidification, biodiversity loss, climate adaptation & protests from a Melbourne Citizen Journalist.