Mike's Minute: Reality trumping ideology for the planet this week

It hasn’t been a good week for the planet has it?

We have found out we are making more single use plastic than ever before.

We have found out oil companies are making more money than ever before.

If you are a realist, as opposed to an idealist, none of this will have come as a surprise.

What drives most of us is convenience. It's why you should never trust polls on matters where the question involves any form of fanciful theory.

Tom Harris: Now They’re Waging War On Plastics!

Earth Day Network (EDN) chose “End Plastic Pollution” as their theme for this year’s April 22 Earth Day. It is just the tip of the anti-plastic activism that now consumes environmental extremists. A Google search  on “Plastic Pollution Coalition” (a group claiming to represent “more than 500 member organizations” dedicated to “working toward a world free of plastic pollution and its toxic impacts”) yields almost 90,000 hits, including a video actor Jeff Bridges made for the campaign.

Even the United Nations has joined in, making “Beat Plastic Pollution” the theme of its June 5 World Environment Day, “a global platform for public outreach that is widely celebrated in over 100 countries.”