Death by Plastic Eulogy

We are gathered here to mourn the state of the planet, our home, a place where climate change is causing torrential rains and scorching fires.

Have you noticed?

We are here to mourn oceans and rivers filled with plastics and debris.

We are here to mourn beaches which are no longer pristine. We are here to mourn the fish who are feeding off microplastics rather than plankton.

We are here to mourn the whales who are dying with their bellies full of plastic.

We stand here in the realization that we each ingest a credit card worth of plastic every week through the foods and drinks we consume, and that those microplastics may end up in human placenta and sperm.The very essence of human life is in jeopardy.

Unless we come up with alternate solutions to single-use plastics, the very composition of our bodies will be irreversibly changed and the planet we live on will be so toxic and polluted that life as we know it will no longer be possible.

Please join me in the procession.

Death by Plastic (Funeral Procession), New York City, 2021

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