No plastic treaty

There are a few countries whose economy relies a bit too much on plastic production, and therefore the whole world will have to live with more plastic pollution than necessary. This is the sort of thing that makes me despair sometimes. It is so obviously a universally good thing to tackle plastic pollution. Plastic is a pain. It has infested the whole world including our bodies, it disfigures our landscapes, it poisons people who feel the need to burn it, and it piles up in enormous quantities that are difficult to tackle with any of the ways we have of dealing with it. We need a plastics treaty. We don't have a plastic treaty. We don't even have a road towards further negotiations towards a plastics treaty. 

We would also be a lot closer to reducing greenhouse emissions if it wasn't for a few nations who benefit financially from just keeping burning with abandon. We will be closer to a global minimum of all sorts of tax if it wasn't for a few tax havens who don't like that, and some companies who don't either. There is so much power in money, so if money is made from something destructive, it's so hard to get rid of that destructive force.

I think we'll be going to hell in a handcart all the way until we are there. I'll see how close we get in my lifetime! I am very likely to see some really freaky climate events before I pop my clogs. And a lot, an awful lot of plastic pollution…