| 100 MILLION plastic bottles are thrown away every day,
choking our oceans in plastic waste. Governments meet in days
to outline clean ocean |
100 MILLION plastic
bottles are thrown away every day, choking our
oceans in plastic waste. Governments meet in days to
outline clean ocean commitments. If a million of us call
on top polluters to stop the flood of plastics, the
Head of the UN's Environment Programme will announce
our petition to the plenary and use our voices to
help oceans breathe again.
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Dear friends, By 2050, our
oceans will have more plastic trash than fish.
It’s shameful. Half of the plastic made we
use just once and throw out, choking our seas and all the
animals in it.
But in days, our governments can stem
this tide when they meet at a historic summit to outline their
clean ocean commitments. Public pressure just got #2
polluter Indonesia to commit to a 70%
reduction in plastic waste! Now we need to go after the
other top polluters .
If one million
of us get behind a global call, the Head of
the UN Environment Programme will announce
our petition from the summit podium
and work with us to push countries to ban
single-use plastics and let oceans breathe
again. Add your name: Click to save our oceans! No
matter where we live, each breath we take connects us to our
oceans. Most of our oxygen is generated by them. They regulate
our climate and weather, turn water into clouds that give us
rain. And oceans provide a home for near 80% of all living
things on earth. We can’t live without our oceans.
But
now, our oceans can’t live without us.
Humans
have destroyed ocean health and we need to fix it. The good
news is, more than half the plastic trash in our oceans come
from just five nations. If we focus global attention on the
biggest polluters now, we can create global system-change
for plastic-free seas. What’s missing is the motivation --
and that’s where we come in.
Let’s build
a massive call on our governments to stop suffocating our
oceans. Once we reach a million signers,
Avaaz will launch targeted campaigns on the top polluters to
ramp up the pressure for them to act. Click to save our oceans!
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