Week Two:
TOPIC: PLASTIC WASTE AND ITS IMPACT ON ECOSYSTEMS
The Concepts of Sustainability Instantly reading this text I think about a class I took last semester, Sustainable Fashion. In this course we dissected the term “sustainability”. This term is one that is now used so loosely that it’s great to be able to get a concrete idea of what it means to be sustainable.
- Economy
- Equity
- Environment
Sustainable Agriculture vs. Carrying Capacity: Alteration of individual and collective human behavior or new technologies.
Sustainable Economy vs. Sustainable Society
Biggest Takeaway from this Chapter: The Critique of Technology strain of thought focuses its attention on the roles that technology and technological innovation have played in promoting rather than avoiding environmental degradation, particularly when technologies are brought to bear on symptoms of problems rather than on fundamental issues.
Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic Plastic economies: Made to be wasted PET and topologies of disposability
Learn everything about plastic pollution.
THREE KEY FACTS I FOUND:
- Since the 1950’s around 8.3 BILLION tons of plastic have been produced worldwide.
- A MILLION plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute.
- The average person eats 70,000 microplastic each year.
Plastic Pollution: How Humans are Turning the World into Plastic
Why Plastic Pollution is Personal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJiQt9ASSNg
City to Sea: non profit organization running campaigns to stop plastic pollution at source. #SwitchtheStick: make cotton bud stens out of paper.
And yet there’s a key difference: Ocean plastic is not as complicated as climate change. There are no ocean trash deniers, at least so far. To do something about it, we don’t have to remake our planet’s entire energy system.
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