Guest essay by Eric Worrall
As COP26 climate negotiations stall, plastics crisis proponents are offering a merger, with a proposition that the climate crisis and plastics crisis are actually linked.
Climate Change: Tackle Plastic Pollution Urgently, Scientists Urge World Leaders
Monit Khanna
Updated on Oct 03, 2021, 01:18 ISTHighlights
This is according to a study published by researchers from the Zoological Society of London and Bangor University. As a part of the study, the team highlighted three crucial ways climate change and plastic pollution are connected.
Firstly, they highlight that manufacturing plastic goods releases a ton of greenhouse gas emissions.
Secondly, extreme weather events such as floods, typhoons that are a result of climate change cause immense devastation. This devastation is contributing to the dispersal of plastic pollution in the sea
Thirdly, they spoke about how climate change and plastic pollution is affecting the life of marine habitat. The heating of seas and oceans due to climate change is also affecting coral reefs as well as marine habitats.
Scientists are warning politicians that while they focus on combating climate change, they shouldn’t sideline plastic pollution, as together, they’re making matters worse.
They urge that instead, they should be seen together as one big issue that needs to be tackled instantly.
This is according to a study published by researchers from the Zoological Society of London and Bangor University. As a part of the study, the team highlighted three crucial ways climate change and plastic pollution are connected.
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Marc Morano predicted the rise of the plastics crisis in 2010, but to date the fake plastics crisis has mostly been overshadowed by the fake global warming crisis.
What are the prospects of the plastic crisis gaining more traction?
In my opinion the plastics narrative has probably hit its limit. As you can see from the picture above, climate protestors themselves seem to be enthusiastic personal contributors to plastic pollution. Obviously it would be embarrassing to stage a plastic crisis march which litters the landscape with plastic pollution, but to date it has been a struggle to convince the kind of kids who attend climate marches to clean up after themselves.
Having said that, my track record of predicting future crisis narratives is not that special.
After Turkey last year deployed operational autonomous hunter killer terminator robots straight out of science fiction in the Libyan civil war, delivering an overwhelming advantage their proxies, and a surprise blow to the prestige of Russian high tech military suppliers, I thought my long predicted AI crisis would get some traction. But I guess something obscure and terrible happening in Northern Africa just doesn’t have the pulling power of the fake plastics crisis, which is already established at least to some extent in the minds of the public.
At least Marc predicted a crisis which has grabbed significant public attention.
As Yogi Berra once said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future”.
Climate Container Change Crisis together now under the big top
It’s too late, there is an energy crisis in the UK and EU and northern Europe.
These folks are mentally deranged, they really are.
The Only Plastic Crisis there could ever be is when/if we run out of the stuff = exactly what they want when they imagine we should ‘leave it in the ground‘
Have your crisis, rant, rave, stamp feet whatever but not until you’ve come up with a sensible and viable alternative….
You know, try and be useful around here instead of like little children endlessly want want wanting
The plastic nuts just want the benefits of intersectionality with the climate nuts. All of the various social crisis nuts (race, etc.) are jumping on the climate bandwagon because of the publicity. The problem is that they are fundamentally incompatible and real people start laughing at them all.
if you know plastics, you understand the that UV light (sunlight) is the most detrimental thing to them…it breaks down the polymer and destroys the material…don’t bury it….it will last forever. Plastic floating on the ocean surface, the sun will destroy it in days or weeks…for plastic that cannot be recycled…the best option is to grind it up and disbruse it over the ground for the sun to breakdown…burning does produce noxious gases.
“if you know plastics, you understand the that UV light (sunlight) is the most detrimental thing to them”
I have a modest amount of land – plastic bags can blow in from anywhere and I don’t see them for a long time. It doesn’t take all that long for them to disintegrate into dust when I try to pick them up.
The only “plastics crisis” I see is the invention and continued use of that damnable hard-plastic packaging that requires power tools to open.
Isn’t that why belt knives were invented?
Also bandages, first aid kits as well as cloths to clean the blood up with! Tough damn things cause the knives to slip off and into your hand or fingers!
Appears the climate cult is trying to steal my ideas. For many years I have been saying plastic pollution has been adding to the 400 year natural ocean warming cycle. It is this ocean warming that has warmed the planet. Nothing at all to do with emissions.
Looks like some alarmists may be catching on that CO2 emissions cannot produce warming and starting to back track.