Despite the planetary doom and gloom, I’m actually feeling pretty hopeful. Why? What gives me enormous hope is that rather than being defeated by the scale of the problems, humanity has cranked up the scale of the solutions. Opinion by Rick Smith
of negotiations for a new global treaty to solve the plastic pollution crisis. Much is at stake, and nothing is yet determined.
There’s a big difference, of course, between talking the talk and walking the walk. Whether it’s “30 by 30” or “Net Zero by 2050” there remains enormous hard work ahead to turn commitments into policy and then see results. But the first step in solving any big problem is to have the audacity to match it with an even bigger solution.
The world is doing just that. And this should be the cause of some Earth Day hope and optimism for the road ahead.and the co-author of two bestselling books on the human health effects of pollution.
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