Rebecca Altman | PhD
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🏭 Drafting An Intimate History of #Plastics w/ @ScribnerBooks
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Sharing one more time for anyone who may have missed it. This is an #actuallyautistic essay about writing, self-discovery, & perspective.
💡How we break free from brackets and avoid a lowest common denominator #PlasticsTreaty is currently the biggest consideration. Magnus Løvold has covered this well here:
twitter.com/magnuslovold/s…
This The Guardian article provides a good round up of where things were left, in particular the comments from Center for International Environmental Law ring true on countries caving as soon as they get a sideways look from big polluters
theguardian.com/environment/20…
Important to see mainstream news coverage of the negotiations - also with a framing on health and overproduction. I urge all media outlets to turn attention to what is happening in the #PlasticsTreaty negotiations as we head to Busan.
twitter.com/_C_Dixon/statu…
Pacific Small Island Developing states, particularly 🇫🇯 and🇨🇰 led from the front on climate and plastics links and the need for an ambitious pathway. Special circumstances of SIDS are real and must be taken into consideration.
Always in awe of Sivendra Michael 😍
📸K Worth/ENB
We also saw big lobbyist presence, not just the industry delegates outnumbering many country delegations but also intimidation of scientists and pro-plastics adverts blanketing the city. Joe Lo is @[email protected] at Climate Home News covered this well 👇
climatechangenews.com/2024/05/03/hop…
📸K Worth / ENB
“The point of treaty-making is to develop the rules needed to solve a common problem, & to work over the following years, decades to get a critical mass of countries to adhere [to them].”Magnus Løvold on #inc4 #plasticstreaty medium.com/points-of-orde…
After #INC4 for a #PlasticsTreaty in Ottawa🇨🇦 High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution and other countries keen to prevent a lowest-common-denominator outcome will have to break free from the stymieing norms of environmental diplomacy #breakfreefrombrackets medium.com/points-of-orde…
The amazing Rebecca Leber covered the joint Senate Budget Committee Oversight Committee Democrats hearing on fossil fuel disinformation for Drilled today and filed this great dispatch: drilled.media/news/may-disin…
Sharon Lavigne is one of TIME Magazine's '100 Most Influential People of 2024.'
I had the honor of meeting Sharon originally back in 2019, when I reported on her incredible journey to form risestjames for Rolling Stone
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
The world has a chance to end plastic pollution – the petrochemical giants mustn’t spoil it | Steve Fletcher
#PlasticsTreaty
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…