Marine debris and plastic pollution are shown along the coastline of Haiti in a handout photo. (Timothy Townsend/The Canadian Press)
CBC: What's on Canada's agenda at the G7 - and will anyone want to talk about it?
The leaders have a to-do list, but tensions over Trump's policies threaten to sweep it off the table.
There is an official agenda for this week's Group of Seven summit in Charlevoix, Que. — though it may be a struggle to get the leaders to stick to it.
There are going to be so many sources of pent-up tension between U.S. President Donald Trump and the other leaders in the room, and so little time to air them. Trump will be on the ground in Canada for only 28 hours.
Governments hosting Group of Seven summits typically select themes that are as non-controversial as possible, and then couch them in vanilla language that everyone can get behind. Canada in 2018 is no exception — the Charlevoix agenda runs to five key themes:
* Investing in growth that works for everyone;
* Preparing for the jobs of the future;
* Advancing gender equality and women's empowerment;
* Working together on climate change, oceans and clean energy; and
* Building a more peaceful and secure world.
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Update: Why Canada must push for a G7 plastics charter (John Coyne, The Globe and Mail)
WNU Editor: When it comes to plastic the problem is not the G7 .... so here’s some “awareness” .... it’s not our plastic .... Shocking photos show the horrible effects of pollution (NYPost).
10 comments:
See that is a pure leftist wish list that has no substance behind it.
Obama relished that sort of preening for the favorable press.
I'll be interested to see Trump's take.
You know what I see most out on the ocean are Mylar balloons, especially this time around graduation, hundreds upon hundreds of balloons. Can’t say I have ever seen a plastic straw in the ocean.
dear Anon
Obaxma has not been president for over a year now. Trump has NO take on this issue.
Dear Anon
I saw whales while on a whale watch. I did not see sardines though
I see both whales and sardines regularly...then again when you spend 150 days a year on the water you see a little bit of everything...(except plastic straws).
there are no plastic straws. none. that is why so many places are now doing away with them. no wipes. no shopping bags...it is all fake plastic
But HERE IS A COLLECTION OF MOSTLY PLASTIC, A GARBAGE DUMP TWICE THE SIZE OF TEXAS And yes, you could see that if you were in the right spot. Because you can not see something does not mean it is not out there somewhere. Others have, though, seen such things, things that do not exist because you had not seen it. And the last time you saw gravity?
No Fred you are wrong, no one has seen the great pacific garbage patch, it's more or less a theoretical patch more than anything else. Isn't anyone curious as to why there has never been a picture taken of this disaster on the ocean? I mean it's the size of Texas and Atlantis combined after all, should be a nice image on google earth, maybe some helicopter footage. Yes there is garbage out there in the ocean, no it shouldn't be there, but this misconception that if you just get far enough from the coast line you will be completely surrounded by trash bags and plastic bottles is just...rubbish.
Anon,
That's because the garbage patch is spread out approximately 4 particles per square meter and mostly lies beneath the surface. It's not a gigantic floating island of trash that you can spot from the sky a lot of the plastic is clear and too small to pick it out from the darkness of the deep ocean.
Here are some real pictures of real garbage in the real ocean
here is what Snopes has to say about a garbage patch
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