Only on the presumption that we didn’t detect it and aim for solutions sooner (e.g. invent circular recycling of plastics, replace major causes of microplastics with degradeable alternatives, say, vulcanized rubber with rubber and mushrooms).
Also the society’s response in this late hour would probably be more effective than a disinformation campaign and a shrug.
I think it’s safe to assume that if we had stronger regulations, some of which were first implemented 1980, we’d be looking at significantly less than now.
Agreed, but 1980 was the beginning of the Reagan-Bush era and massive environmental deregulation, which only got worse through Clinton and George W. Bush.
The great conservative movement killed conservation.
But supporting their central point, Marx did propose a solution that would
makehave made microplastics evitable.Only on the presumption that we didn’t detect it and aim for solutions sooner (e.g. invent circular recycling of plastics, replace major causes of microplastics with degradeable alternatives, say, vulcanized rubber with rubber and mushrooms).
Also the society’s response in this late hour would probably be more effective than a disinformation campaign and a shrug.
I think it’s safe to assume that if we had stronger regulations, some of which were first implemented 1980, we’d be looking at significantly less than now.
Agreed, but 1980 was the beginning of the Reagan-Bush era and massive environmental deregulation, which only got worse through Clinton and George W. Bush.
The great conservative movement killed conservation.
Would have made—that cat is out of the barn