Tag Archives: plastic
Overshooting ourselves in both feet
How much money have you got in your current account? What about your savings? Imagine if by now, you had already spent all your income for 2020, and you were forced to live on borrowings for the next four months. … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Global Warming, Sustainability
Tagged deforestation, Overshoot, plastic
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World awakens slowly to unfolding plastics catastrophe
Below, my article as published in the April 2018 edition of Village magazine. I’ve been writing for years about the pervasive and ever-expanding threats posed by plastic wastes, but have found few takers in the mainstream media; given the staggering … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Irish Focus, Pollution
Tagged David Attenborough, Newstalk, plastic, Repak
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Time to put a lid on bottled water
‘Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former’. That’s the view of no less an observer than Albert Einstein. Though his judgement may seem a little harsh, the strange story of … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Habitat/Species, Irish Focus, Sustainability
Tagged bottled water, carbon, environment, Perrier, plastic, pollution, Sustainability, Volvic
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