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Perhaps, but if you want to solve a problem, you need to address the primary cause. If the European rivers never released any single-use plastic it would not h
by dwheeler 7y ago
Perhaps, but if you want to solve a problem, you need to address the primary cause. If the European rivers never released any single-use plastic it would not have a serious impact on the problem. The vast majority of this pollution comes from the Asian rivers (esp. the Yangtze); if you want to solve the problem, you have to address them.
- ben_w 7y agoTrue, but I don’t have a democratic vote in China, and I do have one in the EU. As the three largest economic blocks in the world are the USA, the EU, and the PRC, and they are roughly the same size (~15e9 $), if I ask my representatives to put a bit of pressure on the other two I expect almost nothing to happen.