I share your opinion that it's hard to be optimistic about the ubiquity of plastic and how it has insinuated itself into every nook and cranny of the biosphere. I remember a study in 2019 that said we ingest a credit cards worth of plastic every week, but the latest revelations seem much worse.
A couple of other podcasts you might be interested in, related to this subject:
Thank you so much Tim for sharing those links with me and other readers. Sometimes, I just think from a narrative perspective, if we can distance ourselves from the stage and place ourselves in the audience, here we are, looking at a potential tragedy. We're approaching the last act and damn it's exciting and interesting. As audience members we have no idea how it's really going to end, but we're at a stage writers and script writers (using The Save The Cat framework), call All Is Lost, which comes after Bad Guys Close In. The next stage is Dark Night of the Soul, where the hero works out to breakthrough to a resolution. The last act is figuring out how to fix things 'the right way' having wasted time and tried things that failed before. Ultimately, we either make it through somehow or submit to an extinction of some variety that we've caused.
Yep, there's always more to do. My progress is so slow. But keeping the concerns 'top of mind' helps me. Ultimately of course we can't solve this as individuals.
I share your opinion that it's hard to be optimistic about the ubiquity of plastic and how it has insinuated itself into every nook and cranny of the biosphere. I remember a study in 2019 that said we ingest a credit cards worth of plastic every week, but the latest revelations seem much worse.
A couple of other podcasts you might be interested in, related to this subject:
https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/89-sian-sutherland?rq=plastic
https://www.planetcritical.com/p/the-green-washing-machine-veronica
Thanks for the consumer tips. We do a couple of those, but there's always more to try out.
Thank you so much Tim for sharing those links with me and other readers. Sometimes, I just think from a narrative perspective, if we can distance ourselves from the stage and place ourselves in the audience, here we are, looking at a potential tragedy. We're approaching the last act and damn it's exciting and interesting. As audience members we have no idea how it's really going to end, but we're at a stage writers and script writers (using The Save The Cat framework), call All Is Lost, which comes after Bad Guys Close In. The next stage is Dark Night of the Soul, where the hero works out to breakthrough to a resolution. The last act is figuring out how to fix things 'the right way' having wasted time and tried things that failed before. Ultimately, we either make it through somehow or submit to an extinction of some variety that we've caused.
Yep, there's always more to do. My progress is so slow. But keeping the concerns 'top of mind' helps me. Ultimately of course we can't solve this as individuals.