Plastic is probably one of the worst polluting product currently used in the world because of the sheer quantities produced. A much worse and more urgent problem than CO2 or energy production as can be seen below. It will take 30 years and trillions of dollars to change our energy system. We could solve our plastic problem in less than 10 years at a fraction of that cost by creating biodegradable plastics. But that would reduce profits for powerful companies so it won't happen. When you understand this, you also understand that most of what you are being told is little more than manipulation.
As a diver, I would love to see less plastic in the sea, on the beaches and more generally in our lives. Understanding the problem with plastic which is over focusing on production and use, not cycle would change drastically our society. The great discovery of capitalism is also the one the least talked about for obvious reasons: Externalizing costs. Taking everything into consideration is more complex, far more expensive and less profitable. But it is also much more green and ecological. It is in fact what generations before us used to do. But the subject has been deflected into a green utopia which doesn't touch profits or vested interests. Almost a religion where you can't even question the dogma. And while we fight dragons and CO2, long before the warming apocalypse, we be done destroying the forests (palm oil), polluting the seas (plastics) and create a consumer suburban life which is THE unsustainable part of our society.
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