It’s
everywhere: in the rain, our food, even in the human placenta! Plastic is
poisoning all life on Earth.But finally there’s hope.For the first time, more
than 100 countries are now calling for a new global treaty to end plastic
pollution! But big polluters are trying to weaken the proposal. We can’t let
them trash our chance to clean-up our planet! We have days to show huge public
support for the most ambitious plan to end the plastic crisis. Add your
name before governments meet: Dear friends, We’ve seen it choking life in the
deepest oceans and on the highest mountains. Now shocking studies are finding
plastic pollution everywhere: in the rain, our food, our drinking water, even in
the human placenta! It’s poisoning us, and all life on Earth.But finally we have
a unique opportunity to change this.Right now, the United Nations is considering
a new ambitious global treaty to end plastic pollution. If countries agree to
it, we have a real chance of cleaning up our planet! But big polluters are
already trying to water down the proposal.It’s up to all of us to show them that
the whole world supports the strongest possible treaty to end the plastic
crisis! Governments are meeting in days – click to add your voice, and forward
to everyone you can, and when we reach 1 million, Avaaz will work with partners
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It’s
everywhere: in the rain, our food, even in the
human placenta! Plastic is poisoning
all life on Earth.
But finally there’s
hope.
For the first time, more than 100
countries are now calling for a new
global treaty to end plastic pollution!
But big polluters are trying to weaken
the proposal. We can’t let them trash our chance
to clean-up our planet! We have days to
show huge public support for the most
ambitious plan to end the plastic
crisis. Add your name before
governments meet: |
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Dear
friends, |
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We’ve
seen it choking life in the deepest oceans and
on the highest mountains. Now shocking studies
are finding plastic pollution
everywhere: in the rain, our food, our drinking
water, even in the human placenta! It’s
poisoning us, and all life on Earth.
But
finally we have a unique
opportunity to change
this.
Right now, the United Nations is
considering a new ambitious global
treaty to end plastic pollution. If
countries agree to it, we have a real chance of
cleaning up our planet! But big polluters are
already trying to water down the
proposal.
It’s up to all of us to show
them that the whole world supports the strongest
possible treaty to end the plastic crisis!
Governments are meeting in days
– click to add your voice, and forward
to everyone you can, and when we reach
1 million, Avaaz will work with partners to
deliver our voices at the key meeting:
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Plastic
is toxic from the moment production begins. It’s
made from the same dirty fossil fuels that are
fueling the climate crisis. And it doesn’t
decompose! A plastic bottle breaks down into
tiny, invisible pieces that can travel
around the world through water and air,
contaminating all life on
Earth.
Even rain is polluted with
plastic. Scientists in the US found
that rain is flooding protected national parks
with 1,000 tons of microplastics every year --
that's the equivalent of pouring up to
300 million plastic
bottles!
This is a planetary
emergency, and we need an urgent, coordinated
global response. That’s why more than
100 countries are calling for a binding global
treaty, which could bring an end
to the throwaway-plastic culture, and transition
the world towards a future that protects people,
wildlife and our climate.
But big
oil, chemical firms and major
plastic-manufacturing countries are already
trying to weaken the plan. So we need
to mobilise fast, and show our governments at
the key UN meeting this month that people
everywhere demand the strongest possible
treaty to end the plastic plague:
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We’ve
done it before. Our movement spearheaded the
mobilisations that led to the landmark Climate
Paris Agreement, and more recently we mobilised
from around the world to stop rich countries
from dumping their plastic waste onto low-income
nations. We know that such battles can be long,
and treaties don’t always deliver the results we
need, fast enough. But this is the best chance
we ever had to kick-start a coordinated,
international response – so we all have to speak
out now, and keep pushing until we win a world
safe from plastic.
With hope and
determination,
Spyro, Laura, Luis,
Anneke, Huiting, Muriel, Stefanie and the whole
team at Avaaz |
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