We have bigger problems!  Plastic straws redux. FRR 02 Aug 2019
Channel: CaneRodPiper
Date: 2019-08-02

Links below.  After a rough start with technical difficulties (apologies for that and the poorly synced video) I continue the discussion I started last week and talk about the insignificance of plastic straws and the bigger problems we face.  These problems include the loss of farm-able topsoil and the impending need to eat insects.

Study on the source of ocean plastic:  https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.7b02368

Soil degradation in the next 60 years:  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-farming-left-if-soil-degradation-continues/

UN FAO report on agriculture and eating insects:  http://www.fao.org/3/i3253e/i3253e.pdf