Someone's getting serious about single-use plastics

It's undeniable that the use of plastics for practically everything is terribly convenient.

It's also undeniable that this convenience has a huge downside; the Planet is becoming a trash heap and it's having a devastating impact on wildlife everywhere.

It's imperative that we get serious about this and make some real changes.

Yes, I know this will not be easy.

A tiny bit of good news: the French are getting serious about weaning themselves off of the use of  plastic for everything. And it's having an impact.

Of course, it would have an even greater impact if we in the U.S. were to follow their lead.

But it's virtually certain that our resistance to change, coupled with the determination of the Fossil Fuel industry to prioritize its profitability over the welfare of the environment, will mean that we will never actually rise to meet the challenge.

This is regrettable, to say the very least.

And it's just one more reason--and there are so many--that the outlook for our Planet is very bleak.

We had better wake up.

Not only about our use of plastics, but about a whole range of issues that are contributing to this horrible degradation of the Earth.

Will we ever rise to meet the challenge?

I wouldn't say there's no chance.

But I wouldn't  bet the rent that we will.



"Bulldog Ben" Basile

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