Our Planet Versus Plastic Bags—A Tale Of Two Cities
Santa Fe and Albuquerque share many qualities and conditions, but the two communities are also dissimilar, which is reflected in the way they have dealt with the plastic bag dilemma.
Santa Fe and Albuquerque share many qualities and conditions, but the two communities are also dissimilar, which is reflected in the way they have dealt with the plastic bag dilemma.
There are countless stories in the media and popular culture about our fraught relationship with plastic, focusing on our addiction and dependence. However, this way of framing the problem actually serves to perpetuate it. Plastics are plural.
They are worried about rising sea levels, extreme weather events, the spread of disease, air pollution and the extinction crisis—all issues directly impacted by the climate crisis.
In the past decade, scientists have detected microplastic in the bodies of fish and shellfish; in packaged meats, processed foods, beer, sea salt, soft drinks, tap water, and bottled water. If you regularly drink water from plastic bottles, you’re likely ingesting even more plastic than the average consumer.
One of the first things our bodies do in adapting to heat is to produce more plasma – the watery portion of blood. This enables our circulatory systems to move heat to the skin more effectively so that sweating can remove it from the body.
In more than 20 years of living in Southern California, I have never been in a potential fire evacuation zone—until now.