Negotiations on a plastic pollution accord are drawing to a close Sunday, as nations continue debating whether to tackle the exponential growth of plastic production.
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Turns out that if you let greedy corporate sociopaths run civilization they will kill off most life and self-destruct in only a few hundred years… nobody could have predicted this.
For all we know greed (e.g. personal financial gain) is the great filter.