Plastic is the new "climate change". And the similarities are striking! In both cases humans put profit over anything else. In both cases humans did so for tens of years, and only after a while they started to realize or admit the impacts. In both cases the alarm is ringing very loud, and yet the ones polluting keep on polluting. In both cases the blame either goes on people (Hey people, sort your garbage! Don't use electricity so much! Buy local! Use electric cars! WTF people!), or on companies (Let's regulate them! Let's fine them! Let's....!) - and none are true or working. The blame should be on our trade-based society.

So yah, same story. Humans create a huge fucking mess, and we play the blame game and try to stop it by slapping hands, left and right, hopping that this will stop humans form doing the "bad" things. Not working!

I've been saying for years that climate change is not the biggest problem. There are so many such problems: plastic pollution, antibacterial resistance, viruses, garbage disposal, batteries, asteroid mining, and so forth. All of them are a result of our trade-based society. As long as that's still in place, ruling our lives, such problems will always exist and will be getting worse and worse. No rules or laws are going to change anything. We are fucked!

Unless we understand that trade fucks everything up, and we move towards a trade-free society. #tromlive

trom

2021-03-23 15:19:31

Drowning in Plastic

Wildlife biologist Liz Bonnin works with some of the world’s leading marine biologists and campaigners to discover the true dangers of plastic in our oceans.

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