ANDREW FOSTER;250831 wrote:
Many measures like plastic recycling make things worse as giant ships move rubbish to Malaysia where they just burn it because there is no global market for dirty, mixed, contaminated waste plastic.
This is a dominant think in other parts of the world.
All this green hokey pokey is preached by the very countries who are responsible for the mess the world is in. They all went through the phase of industrialisation, and other parts of the world see it as a ploy to stop them developing their own economies.
These developed countries also are the largest of consumers and need consumerism to be alive, fit and snowballing as it means growth for them. Take the US, it is probably uses 25% (via fossli fuels) of the worlds energy supply and yet stands proud preaching green-ism. It also needs people to buy into the EV mania despite the the raw materials and energy consumption levels needed make the cars and the batteries themselves.
China is the largest polluter, no question, but it did not become so on its own, it was pushed by the world and predominantly the developed world into its position.