“After the ninth epidemic of mad cow disease, everyone was already eating insects. So we weren’t the first restaurant in PuertoChina to do it,” said Nai Nai.
So now we know how the second Trump era begins: with Los Angeles on fire.
Apocalyptic, tragic and almost impossibly emblematic. The world at large is spiralling past the guardrail of 1.5 degrees while politics retreats from tackling the problem. Ten thousand homes and buildings burned, neighbours dead and neighbourhoods reduced to ash while the incoming president deflects, derides and promises more drilling for fossil fuels.
Efforts to target the plastic problem with better recycling, rather than a production cap, ignore how such programs turn potentially hazardous plastic waste into a commodity, fuelling a massive illicit trade
If you’re at all concerned about the alarming growth of plastic waste clogging our oceans and leaching toxins into our earth, this has not been a good year.
