and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal

I know this part is likely referring to the plastic itself, but due to the headline summary, it sounds like a super industrial, dystopic way of describing human birth and death.

Absolutely disgusting:

Being surrounded and yelled at about “misrepresenting reality” is not how serious United Nations-hosted negotiations are meant to proceed. But that is what happened to Prof Bethanie Carney Almroth during talks about a global treaty to slash plastic pollution in Ottawa, Canada. The employees of a large US chemicals company “formed a ring” around her, she says.

At another event in Ottawa, Carney Almroth was “harassed and intimidated” by a plastic packaging representative, who barged into the room and shouted that she was fearmongering and pushing misinformation. That meeting was an official event organised by the UN. “So I filed the harassment reports with the UN,” said Carney Almroth. “The guy had to apologise, and then he left the meeting. He was at the next meeting.”

The actual solution to the Fermi Paradox, artifical polymerization.

Oh well, add it to the pile.

We’re all forty plus years into the great atomization project and we no longer have any ability to tackle even minor systemic issues. There’s no way in our current state we’re removing plastic from even newly manufactured items.

Will we extinct from plastic or not ? What is the chance we passed the point of no return ?