分类目录归档：plastic
Melati Wijsen: Bali -- island of gods.
Isabel Wijsen: A green paradise.
MW: Or ...
a paradise lost.
Bali:
island of garbage.
IW: In Bali,
we generate 680 cubic meters of plastic garbage a day.
That's
We've had it all wrong.
Everybody.
We've had it all wrong.
The very last thing we need to do
is clean the ocean.
Very last.
Yeah, there is a garbage truck of plastic
entering the ocean
every minute
of
This is Sian Ka'an.
Just south of Tulum on Mexico's Caribbean coast,
it's a federally protected reserve,
a UNESCO World Heritage Site
and one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet.
But when I f
so the awesome story it begins about 40
years ago when my mom and my dad came to
Canada my mom left Nairobi Kenya
my dad left a small village outside of
Amritsar India and they got here in the
late 19
I'm a garbage man and you might find it
interesting that I became a garbage man
because I absolutely hate waste
I hope within the next 10 minutes to
change the way you think about a lot of
the stuff i
This is the story of three plastic bottles,
empty and discarded.
Their journeys are about to diverge
with outcomes that impact nothing less than the fate of the planet.
But they weren't always this w
Today, plastics are everywhere.
All of this plastic originated from one small object—
that isn’t even made of plastic.
For centuries, billiard balls were made of ivory from elephant tusks.
But when
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are we
addicted to plastic
we probably are david suzuki
an award-winning professor emeritus and
environmentalist
once said we humans
have become dependent on plastic
for a range of
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we're reaching the end
of a really crazy year and we've been
living through a pandemic
and multiple crises my question is
how do we want to be remembered i hope
by the end of this
and my talk
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solving big
problems requires big changes
but how do we get there and what
difference can one person make
when we consider the overwhelming
challenges
facing our environment
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