Right, by the same token, why should any relatively small carbon intensive country decarbonise x/y/z sector when China, India, Nigeria et cetera are still out t

Right, by the same token, why should any relatively small carbon intensive country decarbonise x/y/z sector when China, India, Nigeria et cetera are still out there? Tyres have costs that they successfully externalise. As a society we either accept them or we regulate them. It’s incredible that whenever the externalised costs of motor vehicles come up someone will come in and say “ah but there’s no direct carbon emissions”. (This is a reference to another child comment, not yours specifically). The context is that we exist in and depend on a biosphere that we don’t fully understand but we do know we are living through what amounts to a huge mass extinction where we are destroying assets that have taken about 66 million years to arise without having determined their true value. We seem to be in the middle of a demographic transition where we will gradually need less space and fewer resources as a society (all the while seemingly needing more care provided to us). And it’s a conversation that’s been going on my whole 30 something years on this planet. And from the article: > “We also assessed the effectiveness of a stormwater treatment device to capture and remove these contaminants from stormwater and evaluated the role of a constructed stormwater wetland for capturing microplastics in the sediment, removing it from stormwater runoff. > “The device is a bag made of 0.2 millimetre mesh which can be retrofitted to stormwater drains. Although originally designed to capture gross pollutants, sediment, litter and oil and grease, it significantly reduced microplastics from raw runoff, with up to 88% less microplastics in treated water which had passed through the device.” They even have a partial solution to this problem that can be retrofitted to existing infrastructure.