Breaking: The Global Plastics Treaty negotiations just ended in failure — again. After 10 days in Geneva, talks meant to deliver a legally binding treaty to control plastic pollution collapsed. Countries couldn’t agree on production caps, toxic chemicals, or financing. With consensus required, every nation held veto power — and plastics-producing states, backed by hundreds of lobbyists, blocked ambition at every turn. The draft that emerged would have let polluters off the hook, focusing only on recycling and voluntary measures. Sound familiar? It’s the same stalemate we’ve seen at the International Seabed Authority, at climate summits, at CCAMLR in Antarctica. Time and again, progress is stalled because a handful of governments and corporations cling to profit while the rest of us face the consequences. Does this make you angry? It should. International governance is crumbling while the clock runs out for our planet. But that doesn’t mean we should lose hope. Instead, let that a...