Here's your chance not just to be the mayor, but the original city planner as well! Imagine a medium sized city that would be developed with modern, low carbon transportation in mind, and other strategies to reduce the average citizens' carbon footprints.
What would that city look like? Would that make you more likely to want to live there?
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Plastic Age
The article [Plastic Age](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg … -and-life/) (by Christina Reed) focuses on the fact that our "addiction to plastics" is already changing our planet, especially in our oceans. The article starts out by giving information on the scale of our plastic problem. It then goes on to its main point: lots of our plastic waste has "disappeared" into our oceans. The theory presented in the article states that plastic might be able to break down quicker than scientists initially thought. The missing plastic may exist as a soup of tiny pieces suspended in the water column. This means that a huge amount of plastic could have been overlooked when searched for, not that it suddenly vanished. The article also discusses a few other reasons to worry about plastic waste in our oceans. Plastic can be lethal to fish and other marine life. In addition, humans may feel negative effects after consuming seafood from areas with high levels of plastic in its waters.
And I think the problem is that now we burn so many plastic everyday.