To the editor: Because of workers author Susanne Rust for bringing readers’ consideration to our plastics air pollution epidemic and its influence on our planet (“Microplastics are in all places — even within the labs learning them. That’s an issue for analysis,” April 5).
In Rust’s newest article, Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is quoted as saying, “We can not regulate what we don’t perceive.” That is absolute madness given the urgency of this problem. It additionally straight contradicts his September 2023 put up on X together with his personal 10-point plan “to repair the plastics air pollution disaster,” which included banning fracking and limiting building and growth of plastic manufacturing amenities.
How for much longer will we now have to attend for motion after we already know concerning the terrible and pervasive impacts of plastics air pollution on our world, together with “Most cancers Alley” on our southern border, plastic manufacturing’s dramatic influence on world warming and local weather change, and the trillions of items of plastic as we speak polluting our oceans? Tragically, it’s very laborious to be sanguine concerning the response of the Trump administration when it’s within the deep pockets of the fossil gasoline and petrochemical industries, which see their future progress reliant on persevering with to flood the world with extra plastics.
Is it an excessive amount of to probably hope that Secretary Kennedy’s “Make American Wholesome Once more” supporters can persuade him to start implementing his personal 10-point plan essential to take down these Goliath-sized industries?
Bruce Saltzer, Glendale
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To the editor: Wouldn’t or not it’s ironic if the invention of plastics, which made such an awesome contribution to our society, proved to be our downfall due to the ubiquity and doable hostile penalties of microplastics contamination of just about each dwelling being?
There sadly is priority for such a phenomenon. The Roman Empire vastly improved its society’s way of life via the event of piped water provide methods. Regretfully, they used lead pipes, which some students really feel helped result in the decline and fall of Rome.
Sheldon H. Kardener, Santa Monica
