May’s plastic plan is big on gimmicks, but it won’t cut waste | George Monbiot

The strategy ignores a critical issue: the more our economy grows, the more we’ll inevitably consumeIt’s as if it were written with an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other. In terms of rhetoric, the 25-year environment plan is in some respects the best government document I’ve ever read. In terms of policy, it ranges from the pallid to the pathetic.Those who wrote it are aware of the multiple crises we face. But, having laid out the depth and breadth of our predicamen