Environmental advocates understand the announcement as a reversal, calling it “absolutely devastating.”
The Biden administration has backtracked from supporting a cap on plastic production as part of the United Nations’ global plastics treaty.
This represents a reversal of what the same groups were told at a similar briefing held in August, when Biden administration representatives raised hopes that the U.S. would join countries like Norway, Peru, and the United Kingdom in supporting limits on plastic production.
Nearly 70 countries, along with scientists and environmental groups, support the latter. They say it’s futile to mop up plastic litter while more and more of it keeps getting made.
The US never did; we’ve just reached the phase where villains don’t feel like they need to hide their atrocities any more.
Honestly, why the fuck did anyone ever expect any US administration to actually take meaningful action.
They’re bought and fucking sold, the entire country
The national religion is The Economy. No one can ever get elected on anything that doesn’t put that as the biggest issue. Hell, we’ll elect fraudster fascists with a known, terrible business track record if he looks like a caricature of the rich.