@morfil I feel you, this is really hard stuff. As a writer I can imagine even faster-acting dystopias ...
But I would define "uninhabitable": for humans. I just wrote today about my visit of sterile oil sands from WWI where you still experience the disaster. But it became a new ecological habitat. So the optimist in me says that nature will survive.
If our anthropocentric species wants survive, we must act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_plastic_pollution_treaty
#GlobalPlasticsTreaty
#GlobalPlasticsTreaty
We won't recycle our way out of plastic pollution.
We have to make less plastic.
That is why we absolutely must reduce plastic production by at least 75% by 2040.
Join the movement fighting for an ambitious #GlobalPlasticsTreaty
Micro- and Nano-Plastics Are in the Air, Water, and Land: The Health Effects Need Much More Study
#Health #Environment #MicroPlastics #NanoPlastics #PlasticPollution #NIH #EnvironmentalHealth #Plastics #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #PublicHealth #Sustainability
https://the-14.com/micro-and-nano-plastics-are-in-the-air-water-and-land-the-health-effects-need-much-more-study/
No #PlasticsTreaty agreement. It sounds like a block of oil-producing nations like Saudi Arabia are refusing to commit to cuts in production. #INC5 #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #PlasticPollution
Lots of complaints from Busan #INC5 that many of the meeting rooms are far too small, limited capacity, with many #PlasticsTreaty observers being turned away.
Not a good look for transparency and accountability.
I am following the negotiations for a #GlobalPlasticsTreaty online
https://takvera.blogspot.com/2024/11/inc5-negotiations-for-global-plastics.html
The Global Plastics Treaty must cut production and consider the full life cycle of plastics. #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #INC5 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/24/world-unable-cope-10-years-talks-un-global-treaty-to-end-plastic-waste
‘Outraged that some plastic you send for recycling ends up being burned? Don’t be’
An interesting perspective, worth reading.
Doesn’t make me hate plastic packaging or the supermarkets that use it any less.
Nearly all of our soft plastic waste is associated with food. We still need to attack the source.
#bansingleuseplastic #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #environment #plasticpollution
RT by @EU_ENV: Köszönöm @HU24EU for hosting & co-chairing the bi-annual stocktaking & brainstorming meeting of all MS Environment Director Generals.
Important at this interinstitutional juncture and ahead of #COP16Colombia #COP16UNCCD #GlobalPlasticsTreaty to meet.
[2024-10-03 16:01 UTC]
And how did we get to this point? Believe it or not, it started with coming up with a substitute for #ivory...
The plastic paradox: How plastics went from elephant saviors to #EcoVillains
Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?
by Ross Pomeroy
January 23, 2024
"It was 1869, and something needed to be done.
"With the price of ivory skyrocketing, billiard ball manufacturers were scrambling for an alternative. The prized material derived from elephant tusks was being used to craft such things as knife handles, piano keys, dice, dominoes, chessmen, and yes, billiard balls. Now, with #elephants growing scarce from overhunting, the wonder material was becoming difficult to procure and unreasonably expensive. After all, one tusk would yield just four or five balls. Leading pool table manufacturer Phelan and Collender offered $10,000 ($225,000 today) to any inventor who could discover a replacement for ivory.
"Albany inventor John Wesley Hyatt answered the call, molding together camphor, nitrocellulose, and alcohol under extreme pressure. His concoction, called celluloid, was one of the first synthetic plastics. While Hyatt’s creation proved an unwieldy material for billiard balls — insufficiently durable and mildly explosive when struck — it inspired others to formulate something better. A few decades later, American chemist Leo Baekeland came up with the petroleum-derived Bakelite. It became the first commercially successful synthetic plastic, and very likely saved elephants from #extinction."
[The article goes on to mention how #plastics and #PFAS are interconnected...]
"According to the authors of the report, plastic additives may be the most pernicious. These substances augment plastics to make them more useful to consumers: stronger, more pliable, less #flammable, non-stick, etc. However, large observational studies and research in lab animals indicate they are harming human health.
"The substances could be increasing cancer rates, reducing birth weights, inhibiting antibody responses to vaccines, raising blood pressure, and contributing to infertility. These compounds include polybrominated diphenyl ethers (#PBDE), phthalates, bisphenol A (#BPA), and per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (#PFAS).
"Philip J. Landrigan, a professor, pediatrician, and Director of the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College, is the lead author of the Minderoo-Monaco Commission report. He spoke with Big Think about the potential harms of plastic additives.
"Landrigan was a pediatrician during the 1970s, when lead in gasoline, paints, and toys was secretly poisoning children. He says chemicals leaching from plastics constitute a similar threat: As they’re not chemically bound to the plastic matrix, they can easily escape into the environment. #PBDEs, added as #FlameRetardants in furniture and other products, have been found in house dust and are neurotoxic, he says.
“The thousands of chemicals in plastics — #monomers, additives, processing agents, and non-intentionally added substances — include amongst their number known human #carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, #neurotoxicants, and persistent organic #pollutants,' Landrigan and his fellow authors wrote in the report.
"Given these negative effects, it may seem as if plastic is a fire-breathing dragon. While it began as an ally, it has now turned against us. If we don’t get the dragon back under control, it could spell our downfall.
"To respond to threats from plastics, the experts on the Minderoo-Monaco Commission called for a #GlobalPlasticsTreaty comparable to the Paris Climate Agreement to combat climate change. As part of the treaty, they insist that a 'cap on global plastic production with targets, timetables, and national contributions' is needed. Global plastic use is estimated to nearly triple by 2060."
Read more:
https://bigthink.com/the-present/plastics-costs-benefits-paradox/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
#Crapitalism #BanPlastics
#WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #PlasticRain
230 #ClimateEmergency #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #Failure
Q Why the h*ll do 'we' still hope for a good outcome ?
A Because 'we' need to fix the problem with pollution and production !
This treaty were bound to fail, as long as it is dominated by industry-lobbyist and weak ankled government negotiators. Not only did #Biden and the US let the globe down in a astounding way, this is again proof that negotiating on the survival is just not good enough.
"Lobbyist-Dominated Plastics Talks End Without Clear Path to Production Cuts"
by Olivia Rosane for Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/lobby-dominated-plastics-talks-end
Quotes:
""Despite mounting proof of plastics' enormous harm to people and the planet, the petrochemical industry and the countries that put them first are ramping up efforts to water down this treaty," one campaigner said."
"....what campaigners called a "weak" and "disappointing" compromise, ..."
"But when the time came to go beyond issuing empty declarations and fight for work to support the development of an effective intersessional program, we saw .../\... abandon all pretense as soon as the biggest polluters look sideways at them."
"On the other hand, Break Free From Plastics said that some countries had obstructed the process by pressuring negotiators to agree to consensus, even though the procedure allows for voting when consensus cannot be reached. They also interfered with the drafting of the treaty itself."
"The United States needs to stop pretending to be a leader and own the failure it has created here," said CIEL President Carroll Muffett. "When the world's biggest exporter of oil and gas, and one of the biggest architects of the plastic expansion, says that it will ignore plastic production at the expense of the health, rights, and lives of its own people, the world listens."
"Center for Biological Diversity senior attorney Julie Teel Simmonds said that "rather than showing leadership, the United States has remained disappointedly in the middle." [#Biden let us down ! JdeB]
"The U.S. proposals lack binding targets and focus on cutting demand for plastic rather than production itself," Simmonds continued. "And they don't go beyond existing U.S. policy, which has failed to curb plastic production or protect frontline communities and the environment from harm."
"Frankie Orona, the executive director of the Society of Native Nations, recounted that "negotiating with the U.S. and other oil states has felt like trying to negotiate with industry, always prioritizing profit over the well-being of people and the planet."
""As the world's largest consumer and exporter of plastic waste, purporting to recognize the severity of the crisis, the U.S. must act decisively on these imperatives rather than negotiating an ineffective treaty that will sacrifice the public health and human rights of all to the interests of the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries," the group said.
It demanded that the U.S. delegation support a legally binding treaty that includes set global targets; production caps, phaseouts, and phasedowns for plastic polymers; the health-based control of toxic chemicals in production; a just transition for all communites impacted by the plastics lifecycle; and waste management that protects health and the environment and rejects false solutions."
The plastics industry’s sales pitch is centred on the progressive-sounding idea of a circular economy, but for consumer goods companies, this is still largely focused on recycling. #GlobalPlasticsTreaty https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/04/27/news/plastics-industry-brings-its-sales-pitch-global-treaty-talks
“Our people, the original people here, the Anishinaabe, have been exposed to environmental racism for more than 100 years. Our community and our lands have become a sacrifice zone for the benefit of industry.” #GlobalPlasticsTreaty https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/04/25/news/plastics-industry-treats-indigenous-lands-sacrifice-zones
What's happening at the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations in Ottawa?
According to the Center for International Environmental Law, 196 representatives of fossil fuel and chemical companies registered to attend. That's three times more than the number of independent scientists (58), and seven times more than the number of Indigenous Peoples representatives (28).
https://www.ciel.org/news/fossil-fuel-and-chemical-industry-influence-inc4/
Say no to plastics & fossil fuel industry lobbyists!
What am I currently reading? What Progress on a #GlobalPlasticsTreaty, with the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee 4th meeting #INC4 meeting in Ottawa. Here is the IISD/ENB first daily report:
#PlasticsCrisis
https://enb.iisd.org/plastic-pollution-marine-environment-negotiating-committee-inc4-daily-report-23apr2024
Earth Day 2024 in Ottawa: latest blog post, updated with additional events and actions! https://greenlivingottawa.com/2024/04/15/mark-earth-day-2024-in-ottawa-by-supporting-an-end-to-plastic-pollution/
Image courtesy of EarthDay.Org https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2024/
#EarthDay #EarthDay2024 #EndPlasticPollution #PlasticFreeFuture #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #Ottawa
Important overview article in Nature Medicine journal on #microplastics and #humanHealth as we approach #INC4 meeting negotiating a #GlobalPlasticsTreaty to address #PlasticsCrisis
Earth Day/Week events in Ottawa: community festivals and workshops, environment-themed markets, a repair café, a March to end plastic pollution, and more!
#EarthDay #EarthDay2024 #PlasticFreeFuture #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #Ottawa
18-APR-2024
International experts issue renewed call for Global Plastics Treaty to be grounded in robust science
negotiations re. #GlobalPlasticsTreaty set to resume next week
Government officials from across the world, and around 4,000 observers representing different aspects in society will gather in Ottawa, Canada, April 23-29 for the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4).
Pathway to a Plastic-Free Future: Mobilizing for Change at INC-4
#CircularEconomy #INC4 #Plastics #UNEP #INC4Action #WaterKeeperAlliance #PlasticFreeFuture #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #EndPlasticPollution
https://the-14.com/pathway-to-a-plastic-free-future-mobilizing-for-change-at-inc-4/
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