{"id":344451,"date":"2018-01-19T02:45:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T01:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/warring-on-plastic-david-attenborough-britain-and-environmental-missions\/"},"modified":"2018-01-19T02:45:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T01:45:16","slug":"warring-on-plastic-david-attenborough-britain-and-environmental-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/warring-on-plastic-david-attenborough-britain-and-environmental-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"Warring on Plastic: David Attenborough, Britain and Environmental Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Few documentaries have had quite this impact, so much so that it has ushered in the unfortunate combination of war and plastic, two terms that sit uneasily together, if at all.\u00a0 Tears were recorded; anxiety levels were propelled as Sir David Attenborough tore and tugged at heart strings in his production <em>Blue Planet II<\/em>.\u00a0 The oceans, warned the documentary maker, are becoming a toxic repository, and humans are to blame.<\/p>\n<p>More than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/environment\/eight-million-tonnes-plastic-are-going-ocean-each-year\/\">eight million tons<\/a> of plastic eventually finds an oceanic destination.\u00a0 Decomposition will take centuries.\u00a0 For Attenborough, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/news\/tv\/2017-12-10\/david-attenborough-we-must-act-now-to-protect-our-oceans-from-the-deadly-threat-of-plastic\/\">one scene from the series<\/a> stood out.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In it, as snowflakes settle on the ground, a baby albatross lies dead, its stomach pierced by a plastic toothpick fed to it by its own mother, having mistaken it for healthy food.\u00a0 Nearby lies plastic litter that other hungry chicks have regurgitated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For Attenborough, plastic supplies a certain demonology for the environmental movement, a vast and urgent target that requires mass mobilisation and action.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There are fragments of nets so big they entangle the heads of fish, birds, turtles, and slowly strangle them.\u00a0 Other pieces of plastic are so small that they are mistaken for food and eaten, accumulating in fishes\u2019 stomachs, leaving them undernourished.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To firstly declare war against something deemed valuable, even indispensable, to preservation, distribution and storage over a multitude of products, to name but a few purposes, is lofty.\u00a0 To also identify the <em>casus belli<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/01\/warring-on-plastic-david-attenborough-britain-and-environmental-missions\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few documentaries have had quite this impact, so much so that it has ushered in the unfortunate combination of war and plastic, two terms that sit uneasily together, if at all.\u00a0 Tears were recorded; anxiety levels were propelled as Sir David Attenborough tore and tugged at heart strings in his production Blue Planet II.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-344451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}