*[Enwl-eng] Poisoned

Wed Feb 2 15:44:20 MSK 2022

It’s everywhere: in the rain, our food, even in the human placenta! Plastic is poisoning all life on Earth.But finally there’s hope.For the first time, more than 100 countries are now calling for a new global treaty to end plastic pollution! But big polluters are trying to weaken the proposal. We can’t let them trash our chance to clean-up our planet! We have days to show huge public support for the most ambitious plan to end the plastic crisis. Add your name before governments meet: Dear friends, We’ve seen it choking life in the deepest oceans and on the highest mountains. Now shocking studies are finding plastic pollution everywhere: in the rain, our food, our drinking water, even in the human placenta! It’s poisoning us, and all life on Earth.But finally we have a unique opportunity to change this.Right now, the United Nations is considering a new ambitious global treaty to end plastic pollution. If countries agree to it, we have a real chance of cleaning up our planet! But big polluters are already trying to water down the proposal.It’s up to all of us to show them that the whole world supports the strongest possible treaty to end the plastic crisis! Governments are meeting in days – click to add your voice, and forward to everyone you can, and when we reach 1 million, Avaaz will work with partners to deliver our voices at the key meeting: 

                                It’s everywhere: in the rain, our food, even in the human placenta! Plastic is poisoning all life on Earth.

                                But finally there’s hope.

                                For the first time, more than 100 countries are now calling for a new global treaty to end plastic pollution! But big polluters are trying to weaken the proposal. We can’t let them trash our chance to clean-up our planet! We have days to show huge public support for the most ambitious plan to end the plastic crisis. Add your name before governments meet:  
                                Sign here  

                                Dear friends,  
                                We’ve seen it choking life in the deepest oceans and on the highest mountains. Now shocking studies are finding plastic pollution everywhere: in the rain, our food, our drinking water, even in the human placenta! It’s poisoning us, and all life on Earth.

                                But finally we have a unique opportunity to change this.

                                Right now, the United Nations is considering a new ambitious global treaty to end plastic pollution. If countries agree to it, we have a real chance of cleaning up our planet! But big polluters are already trying to water down the proposal.

                                It’s up to all of us to show them that the whole world supports the strongest possible treaty to end the plastic crisis! Governments are meeting in days – click to add your voice, and forward to everyone you can, and when we reach 1 million, Avaaz will work with partners to deliver our voices at the key meeting:  

                                Sign here: END PLASTIC POLLUTION  
                                Plastic is toxic from the moment production begins. It’s made from the same dirty fossil fuels that are fueling the climate crisis. And it doesn’t decompose! A plastic bottle breaks down into tiny, invisible pieces that can travel around the world through water and air, contaminating all life on Earth.

                                Even rain is polluted with plastic. Scientists in the US found that rain is flooding protected national parks with 1,000 tons of microplastics every year -- that's the equivalent of pouring up to 300 million plastic bottles!

                                This is a planetary emergency, and we need an urgent, coordinated global response. That’s why more than 100 countries are calling for a binding global treaty, which could bring an end to the throwaway-plastic culture, and transition the world towards a future that protects people, wildlife and our climate.

                                But big oil, chemical firms and major plastic-manufacturing countries are already trying to weaken the plan. So we need to mobilise fast, and show our governments at the key UN meeting this month that people everywhere demand the strongest possible treaty to end the plastic plague:  
                                Sign here: END PLASTIC POLLUTION  
                                We’ve done it before. Our movement spearheaded the mobilisations that led to the landmark Climate Paris Agreement, and more recently we mobilised from around the world to stop rich countries from dumping their plastic waste onto low-income nations. We know that such battles can be long, and treaties don’t always deliver the results we need, fast enough. But this is the best chance we ever had to kick-start a coordinated, international response – so we all have to speak out now, and keep pushing until we win a world safe from plastic.  

                                With hope and determination,

                                Spyro, Laura, Luis, Anneke, Huiting, Muriel, Stefanie and the whole team at Avaaz  

                                More information:

                                a.. Global treaty to regulate plastic pollution gains momentum (National Geographic)
                                b.. Microplastics revealed in the placentas of unborn babies (Guardian)
                                c.. Plastic Rain Is the New Acid Rain (Wired)
                                d.. The new plague of plastic rain: It’s the latest terrifying evidence of the damage unchecked pollution is doing to the planet — how microplastics are literally pouring from the sky (Daily Mail)
                                e.. Over 700 Groups Call for an International Plastics Treaty (CIEL)
                                f.. 1,000 tons of microplastic rains down on National Parks and the wilderness in the western US every year, study says (CNN)

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From: Spyro Limneos - Avaaz 
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2022 5:36 PM
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