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.

  • abies_exarchia@lemm.ee
    85·
    4 days ago

    The democratic party establishment failed us in this last election and the wound is raw. OP’s post demonstrates further actions of the democrat leaders that are maligned with a just and livable world, and it feels like rubbing dirt in that wound. I think it’s pretty expected to see these ‘fuck democrat’ comments in response to this

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
      122·
      4 days ago
      • Raw emotional appeal, themes of betrayal
      • Tying everything back to not voting for Democrats as the most important thing
      • No real engagement with anything I said, the whole comment was just about the suspicious timing of comments. I wasn’t trying to say it’s weird that someone would blame something the Biden administration did on Biden. That part makes sense to me.
      • “Democrat leaders”

      Yeah, sounds about right.

      • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago
        1. Is an explanation for people posting angrily about democrats
        2. No they didn’t? What?
        3. C/climate is the most active community on slrpnk.net and gets many more passerby comments from other instances. The timing isn’t terribly unusual, especially considering the little preview text for the article explicitly mentions the biden administration dropping the ball on the environment again. Most people aren’t going to read the article and only respond to the title/preview.
        4. The corporate democrats are clearly the ones who hold the reins in the DNC (hence how Bernie got fucked over), why is it odd to say that?