Far from a distraction: Plastic pollution and the planetary emergency
Lavers, Jennifer L Rolsky, Charles
Lavers, Jennifer L
Rolsky, Charles
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2022-07-04
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2022-02-16
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Anthropocene
climate change
cumulative impacts
greenhouse gasses
planetary boundary threat
climate change
cumulative impacts
greenhouse gasses
planetary boundary threat
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Pollution of the environment with plastics has garnered significant public attention, but the topic has also been the focus of controversy, including assertions that resources are better spent on other topics, such as global warming. Here, we argue that plastic pollution and climate change are fundamentally linked, from the extraction of fossil fuels to the production of plastics, and eventual disposal. We demonstrate how plastics research and funding currently lag significantly behind that of climate change and conclude by advocating for a more integrated approach to addressing pressing conservation issues in the time of a planetary emergency.
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Jennifer L. Lavers, Alexander L. Bond, Charles Rolsky, Far from a distraction: Plastic pollution and the planetary emergency, Biological Conservation, Volume 272, 2022, 109655, ISSN 0006-3207, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109655. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320722002087)
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