Plastics Crisis – Too Hard?

There is an overwhelming amount of plastic in our lives and the existing options to reduce it are becoming less effective as it increases in ways we can’t control (in the air we breathe, the soil and water our food grows in, for example). It is a huge challenge that tactical decision making of government and business seems primed to ignore – deciding that the financial benefits near term of more plastics outweigh the health impacts to life on earth.

Even the most forward-looking countries/states have only taken actions that are ‘baby steps’ to address a problem that is growing by ‘giant steps.’

It is depressing to think that our lives will be less healthy…perhaps shortened…but the path we’ve taken (was it a choice or did we simply follow along with the direction the technology directed?) seems to have few forks toward a healthier planet.

In the end, the plastics crisis may turn out to be something we don’t address…that the problem we’ve created is too hard for us to resolve.

I am consciously deciding to push back on the idea that it is ‘too hard’ … to continue to look for ways to change the plastics scenario in my own life while acknowledging that there could be a point that I give up --- but that time is not today.