A
plan for zero tolerance of plastic pollution of the oceans may be agreed by
nations at a UN environment summit. Governments are being asked to move towards
a legal treaty banning plastic waste from entering the sea. At the moment ships
are prohibited from dumping plastic overboard but there's no international law
against plastics flooding into the sea from the land. Experts say ocean
plastics are an obvious subject for a global treaty: plastics present a
large-scale threat. Dec.1 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42190678
The UN Environment Assembly will gather in Nairobi, Kenya
from 4 - 6 December 2017 under the overarching theme of pollution. The upcoming
Full Moon (also a SuperMoon) of December 3 at Nairobi has Neptune in Pisces prominently
placed on the MC square the luminaries on the horizon axis.
In his essay Neptune
in Pisces (2011–26): Beyond Thought,
Beyond Beliefs, Maurice Fernandez
wrote:
As Neptune moves
into Pisces, humanity is possibly confronted with one of its most serious
existential crises ever. Pisces represents everything in life that is beyond
egocentric control — that which is not yet known. Through Pisces, what we
discover is that we don’t know very much. Such an acknowledgmentis significant
progress, evolutionarily speaking, because most of us possess little knowledge
but think of it as complete. Accepting our limitations renders us humble and
receptive. The passage of Neptune into Pisces will naturally affect our
existential experience on our home planet; facing the unknown means that we
will confront the limits of our science. Established notions will lose their
credibility when completely unexpected occurrences and consequences mystify our
mind. with Neptune, the unexpected means that life confronts us with new
paradigms just when we thought we had it all figured out. The imbalance in
Nature and our lifestyle is clearly a weakening factor, so restoring our
immunity requires that we realign ourselves with a healthier lifestyle and
environment.
The proliferation of plastic products in the last 70
years or so has been extraordinary; quite simply we cannot now live without
them. We are now producing nearly 300 million tons of plastic every year, half
of which is for single use. More than 8 million tons of plastic is dumped into
our oceans every year.
Plastic is cheap and incredibly versatile with properties
that make it ideal for many applications. However, these qualities have also
resulted in it becoming an environmental issue. We have developed a
“disposable” lifestyle and estimates are that around 50% of plastic is used
just once and thrown away.
Plastics are among several
examples of apparently stunning technological success leading to potentially
catastrophic failure. Our recent ascendancy as a prolific and dominant species
has provoked numerous very serious unintended consequences, including toxic
pollution of the ground, atmosphere, and oceans, and losses of huge amounts of
viable habitat for other earthly plant and animal life forms.
With Uranus-Neptune beginning their first semi-square
aspect after their conjunction in 1993 a disillusionment (Neptune) with
technology (Uranus) is setting in. What seemed to be good and useful technology at one time has
turned out later to produce unintended consequences and negative repercussions.
The apparent solution to one problem has ended up creating other, much worse
problems.
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