Environmental advocates understand the announcement as a reversal, calling it “absolutely devastating.”

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.

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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      1 month ago

      You mentioned a lot of strategies we can use to fight for what we want, and then said that none of those will work.

      No, I said all of those will work, to some degree. Even refusing to vote within a targeted framework, where you’re demanding certain concessions in exchange for your vote as part of an organized coalition, putting effective pressure on the party to make specific changes, is a pretty good strategy. It’s how some key environmental legislation has gotten passed in decades past.

      Letting Democrats know that they can’t buy my vote with corporate campaign donations, is me fighting for what I want.

      In exactly the same way that refusing to touch the steering wheel until the car starts going a better direction is fighting not to crash the car.