What two continents contribute 90% of the throwaway plastic, like plastic straws, plastic utensils, cups, bottles and other disposable plastics found in the ocean today? Ninety per cent of the disposable plastic found in the ocean is spewed out of 8 rivers in Asia and 2 rivers in Africa. The U.S. state governments cannot solve the problem of homelessness but they can regulate plastic straws.
Where does 90% of the world’s air pollution and the electricity for electric cars come from? Dirty coal burning plants. A brand new, dirty coal burning plant goes on line once every month in some developing or third world nation; nations striving to westernize and grow a middle class like the middle class of the USA, while the pompous American politicians and environmental activists enjoy giving orders to its own populations claiming the moral high ground by banning use of disposable plastic, which compared to the pollution created by the rest of the world is like putting an adhesive bandage on a severed limb.
To date, attempts so far have failed to create an economical, cleaner coal burning plant that less than affluent nations can afford to adopt, and the only feasible alternative to burning dirty coal is burning the fossil fuel, natural gas. However, environmentalists worldwide always seek to ban cleaner burning, natural gas plants due to questionable climate change from burning natural gas compared to climate change pollution from burning oil, all in favor of costly and less reliable wind and solar energy that may not supply enough energy to sustain the necessary growth demand from emerging nations to grow their middle class.
SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCES: TAMMY BRUCE, LIBERAL DEMOCRAT, NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN, AUTHOR OF THE BOOK ON GROUP THINK “THE NEW THOUGHT POLICE” JUNE 2019, AND RUSH LIMBAUGH, CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN RADIO TALK SHOW HOST JANUARY 2017