Are we being consumed by plastic?: Dianna Cohen at TEDxThessaloniki

[@rosiejenkins6571]

Thank you for this! I live on the gorgeous cost of New South Wales, Australia and share you passion to bring an end to this. We can't give up. We can do this!

[@dickiedavis5240]

Anyone just watched seaspiracy and seen this woman have a hissy fit about being asked a fairly simple question? Edit: the edit was I can't spell 'hissy'... it may still be wrong.

[@shirleyman7612]

Brilliant work, Dianna!!🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎 So touched by your great contributions!!! And many rounds of applause to your team as well!! 🌟🌟🌟🐳🐳🐳👍👍👍

[@raverider2327]

Just watch her on Seaspiracy, such amazing woman 🤡🤡🤡

[@toni4729]

You know, England built the Sydney Harbour Bridge way back in the 1920s and shipped in round the world to be built over there. If they could do it then, surely now The UK could come up with a way to build ships out of plastic. It can't be that hard. At least it'll help use up some of the waste. Big things instead of the little toys that babies choke on.

[@rebeccahelen502]

Thank you for what you do. We, too, live for the water. Even if there's no hope, we still have to try till the day we die. So very painful to listen to this. It's 2016 and the Summer Olympics opened in Brazil today. They will literally be swimming in SHIT, and plastic, to be sure. WHEN will the world wake up?

[@k.ganesanganesan6825]

Link Town planning with plastic issues.

[@romlyn99]

The narrow mindedness of the USA - made hemp illegal. Before the USA made hemp illegal much of the rope in the world was made from hemp. In your video of cleaning the cave - wasn't it ironic that you put the rubbish in plastic bags and the rope you used to tie the bags with was made from plastic? We need to bring the hemp industry back to all counties in the world. Hemp is a great fiber and it costs less resources to make paper and rope and material from hemp than it does to make paper from trees, material from cotton and rope from plastics. This one solution that no government or NPO wants to discuss - because the USA still has cannibis as a schedule one drug - which is ridiculus. Many types of hemp are THC free and cannot be used as a drug. But still so much resistance in the world to growing hemp. A cane farmer in North Queensland grew hemp on his farm as a pilot program. It was supervised by the government. He grew it in the same field as he had grown sugar cane. It cost less water to grow. He harvested it using the same equipment for harvesting sugar cane. That hemp went to a storage facility - and the government blocked the sale of the hemp - and it was burnt. That pilot program was not continued and deemed a failure. Not because it wasn't viable - because of narrow minded government policies purposefully making it fail. There is no one solution to plastic pollution, but growing hemp could be a part of the solution. If we only could get our heads out of that narrow minded thinking about hemp.

[@SweBeach2023]

Plastic is not the problem, bad waste management is. Visit any nation with a working waste management system and a responsible population and the only plastic you will find is the odd plastic bag here and there. Sure, things could always improve, even in the best of places. But it's disingenuous to blame plastic as a material when it's irresponsible people and nations being the problem. We all know that numbers, almost all plastic in the ocean come from a small handful of nations.

[@jasminereynolds5307]

Plastic is 100% the problem. We can't waste manage our way out of this crisis - we need to stop it at it's source and come up with new sustainable alternatives.

[@duggydugg3937]

🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@odalisque1814et]

Please tell me are we suppose to stop using Sport Shoes ?

[@neelz1843]

Don't give up

[@Tripp393]

Someone tell this woman that there are literally biodegradable plastics. She is on such a disingenuous movement.

[@hollyp3065]

Biodegradable plastics actually only degrade with the addition of certain chemicals, which although found naturally are not found in strong enough concentrations to have the same effect. "Biodegradable" plastics still take anything from 50+ years to degrade, if ever.

[@thelissoway6758]

Biodegradable plastics do not degrade properly because landfills are not created for degradation. No air, or moisture. Also if ingested by wildlife/marine animals it will not degrade before killing them.

[@A.F.H-vi1ow]

Not too late. Why would you criticize a person for bringing awareness to the general population? Education about plastic manufacturing and disposal of plastics should be ongoing. And bio-degradable plastics as Dianna Cohen pointed out are created with phthalates which are toxic.

[@surajpurty9352]

We need to share this issue and make people aware about the magnitude of this problem.Unawareness is one of the main problems we are facing.I saw a few videos on youtube and realised that it is mess and we need to act as fast as possible.

[@cyberigs]

So pleased that some people do care, keep up the great work!

[@theresa42213]

Way to go Dianna!! Funny I just heard that you were an artist and wanted to see what kind of 'art' you made knowing little about how terrible this problem has become. I think what you're doing is awesome and your art is beautiful also. YES! I will say NO to plastics.

[@sposdta]

Don't give up Dianna, here in Stuart Florida we are fighting this too