Every time Dominique Browning, Moms’ Co-Founder and Director, goes for a walk these days, she sees plastic trash. Squashed plastic bottles, baggies full of dog poop, takeout containers, dead balloons, abandoned plastic toys…
On a recent walk, she got to thinking that the scattered debris of our lives shows how we take for granted this gorgeous world of ours. And she began to write—to help connect the dots between climate change and petrochemical pollution and toxic chemicals.
What she wrote turned into an essay titled “Let’s Call Our Present Moment on Earth What It Is: Obscene,” which the New York Times published this weekend.
This is the nut of the piece: “I sometimes wish I could be in denial. I wish I could take a walk and not see the ugly carelessness. But denial is a luxury; ‘better to light a candle than curse the darkness.’ I’ve made a choice not to be paralyzed by despair.”
We at Moms know that pollution from the plastics and petrochemical industry is a huge and challenging problem. We have given dozens of testimonies and sent thousands of written comments urging EPA to protect us from this toxic industry. We have developed fact sheets and an extensive Q&A outlining the health impacts of petrochemical pollution. We recently wrapped up a three-part series about the failure of plastics recycling.
We won’t stop working to solve this problem. Because at Moms we’ve made the choice keep fighting.
Read the full article in the New York Times.
TELL CONGRESS: PROTECT OUR FAMILIES FROM PLASTIC INCINERATION POLLUTION