Here’s one of the things that disturb me: you take a real environmental issue, and then quickly move on to SJW/Warmist garbage
Margaret Atwood: ‘If the ocean dies, so do we’
The celebrated author Margaret Atwood has told a conference that humanity’s future is linked to the survival of ocean ecosystems.
Commenting on ocean plastic pollution, she said: “Something has to be done… If the ocean dies; end of us.”
Ms Atwood was speaking at the Under Her Eye summit in London.
Plastic in the ocean seems like a rather important, right? It’s in the headline. In fact, you have to scroll way down in the article before you get more information about this, because the article spends a lot of time on
The conference, held at the British Library, also heard that climate change disproportionately affects women on a global scale.
In addition, their voices are “too rarely heard” in top level climate change discussions.
Aiming to tackle key environmental issues “from a female perspective”, the event hosted a range of policy makers, artists and scientists.
Eventually, we get to
Also on the agenda were solutions to climate change and environmental issues that women are uniquely equipped to tackle.
Kath Clements, from UK company Mooncup which makes re-usable menstrual cups as an alternative to disposable sanitary products, cited the environmental impact of the “1.5 billion menstrual products flushed in the UK annually”.
Other organisations, like the Women’s Environmental Network, are moving to campaign for “periods without plastic” – seeking a reduction in the use of disposable menstrual products, and more education around reusable options.
Bloody Good Period, who donate sanitary products to asylum seekers in the UK, are also looking to use more environmentally friendly items says founder Gabby Edlin.
Ms. Atwood is very much in favor of banning plastic straws and says
“Something has to be done about plastic going into the ocean and it has to be done pretty quick… That’s where 60-80% of the oxygen than we breathe comes from,” she said.
She’s right in that the majority of O2 comes from the ocean, particularly from planktons. And, we do need to do things to reduce ocean pollution as much as possible, including from plastics. You don’t have to be a Warmist or envirowacko to be an environmentalist.
Read: “If The Oceans Die, We Die” »
Since President Donald Trump took office, ICE has put a renewed premium on workplace raids, and recently announced that it had “already†doubled the number of raids between October and May over the year before – a step towards its pronounced aim at quadrupling the rate practised by the previous administration.
The government should make it mandatory for large companies and pension funds to report their exposure to climate change risks, a committee of MPs has said.
The report urges the government to lay down in law the duty that pension funds and other large asset owners have to consider the long-term value of their investment. In light of this duty, institutional investors should be considering environmental risks, the committee said. (snip)
In the back of the Allstar Family Fun & Events Complex in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, past the skeeball tables and arcade games, dozens of dealers are set up in the 48,000-square-foot space, and all of them are trying to put a firearm in my hand.
