Global plastics treaty talks may have stalled but there is still hope. Here’s why
“I think society as a whole, we’ve become kind of addicted to plastic, probably unintentionally.”
Robin Pomeroy is in charge of the World Economic Forum's audio content and hosts the Forum's weekly flagship podcast Radio Davos. Before joining the Forum, Robin spent more than two decades at the global news agency Reuters, as a correspondent in Brussels, Rome and Tehran, and as a senior desk editor in London. He helped found the London-based media literacy charity The Charlotte Project, and taught journalism to Masters students at City, University of London. Robin is a fellow of the Knight Wallace Fellowship of journalists.
“I think society as a whole, we’ve become kind of addicted to plastic, probably unintentionally.”
米国とソビエト連邦という二大国間冷戦下の宇宙開発競争の時代は、もはや遠い過去のものとなりました。現在、米国航空宇宙局(NASA)は、「アルテミス月面探査プログラム」において、グローバル大手を含む多くの企業と提携しています。これは、1972年に人類を最後に月に送ったアポロ計画とはまったく異なる体制です。
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