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Kind of the point, though. To the extent those other issues are competing for attention and willpower with carbon emissions in public and political consciousness, we should pretty much ignore them until the climate situation is resolved.

A turtle occasionally eating a plastic bag for breakfast is a bad thing, but the turtles wouldn't be happy if they knew they're about to die off because we're distracting ourselves with bans on single-use bags and plastic straws.




Climate change is taking most headlines but it's not the only planetary boundary being breached. In fact, the IPBES reports are much more alarmist, and the quantified risk is a lot higher. Granted it's a difficult task to compare these things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries

Plastic pollution is affecting the "novel entities (chemical pollution)" boundary




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