Taylor Swift: Consider a nerdier boyfriend
Shrimp tails > plastic < garbage soup
Who’s in the mood for some piping hot Garbage Soup? Today’s roundup is brought to you by some fishy packaging alternatives and a truly deranged marketing effort to get the youths into fossil fuels. Thanks for stopping by!
The Pope blames rich Westerners for climate change
He writes:
“If we consider that emissions per individual in the United States are about two times greater than those of individuals living in China, and about seven times greater than the average of the poorest countries, we can state that a broad change in the irresponsible lifestyle connected with the Western model would have a significant long-term impact.”
He’s not… wrong.
‘Big Oil's using Fortnite, TikTok, and Twitch in Effort to convince kids fossil fuels are cool’
This is positively nuts and also WHAT?! From Kotaku:
Shell has partnered with map creators to develop “Shell Ultimate Road Trips”, a Fortnite world featuring six different areas to explore in the car of your choice. In the middle of these worlds, players will find a lonely, sad-looking Shell gas station acting as the map’s hub.
The campaign—part of Shell’s pivot back to focusing on gasoline over cleaner energy sources— is designed to promote the company’s “new and improved” premium gasoline. The idea is that in the map, players will need to occasionally fill up at the central Shell gas station and use its new V-Power NiTRO+ fuel to successfully navigate obstacles and courses.
Can you imagine being in that brainstorm session? You’d need to know about gasoline and Fortnite, so I’d be out.
Taylor Swift: Consider a nerdier boyfriend
JK I would never tell this queen what to do. But it would be kind of amazing.
The sea turtle is not the only spokes-animal of plastic pollution
Scientists found plastic-wrapped ants (like, ants wrapped in plastic) doing ant stuff on the island of La Palma, suggesting that plastic pollution is impacting way more species than previously thought. Poor guys.
It’s not clear whether the ants were harmed by the plastic (they were alive), but it’s certainly not a good thing that they were wrapped in plastic. “The more we research, the clearer it becomes that plastic pollution is ubiquitous,” said marine ecologist Melanie Bergmann of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany.
Beyond Meat to launch plant-based meat concession stand at Madison Square Garden
Time for somebody to buy me a Knicks Olivia Rodrigo ticket, STAT. [Vegconomist]
Shrimp — shrimp!? — could replace single-use styrofoam packaging
I was recently told that shrimp tails are good for dogs’ coats (sounds made up, no?), but before you toss ‘em to your poochy, know this: Companies are making foam packaging from a biodegradable material called chitin, which you can find in shrimp shells, insects and fungi.
I love the innovation, but I’d like to know more about what to do with the packaging in order to discard of it properly. Just cause it’s biodegradable doesn’t mean the landfill is the best place for it.
Also, my brother has a seafood allergy. Should he avoid all online orders moving forward? TBD.