Environmental advocates understand the announcement as a reversal, calling it “absolutely devastating.”
The Biden administration has backtracked from supporting a cap on plastic production as part of the United Nations’ global plastics treaty.
This represents a reversal of what the same groups were told at a similar briefing held in August, when Biden administration representatives raised hopes that the U.S. would join countries like Norway, Peru, and the United Kingdom in supporting limits on plastic production.
Nearly 70 countries, along with scientists and environmental groups, support the latter. They say it’s futile to mop up plastic litter while more and more of it keeps getting made.
I am refusing to vote within a framework. If you look at my initial post I qualified that statement.
If the Democrats continue to move to the right, which they have shown some motions toward post election, I will no longer support their presidential candidates.
If they stay where they’re at, I might. And I will still vote for Democrats running in other positions.
2024 was lost by ignoring the material conditions of the working class. As was 2016.
If they don’t get the message, I’m going to bet on a different horse.