'Throwing Weight Behind Something' Isn't the Same as Doing!

Plastic pollution (especially in the oceans) is a real concern and, perhaps, deserves a similar attention as climate change. It has been predicted that, at the present rate of increase, the amount of regular sized and micro-plastics entering the seas will triple by 2025. There will be predictable, wide-ranging negative effects on the species inhabiting them (and on eaters of fish?). In terms of platic dumping, the USA and the UK occupy positions 1 and 2 (I am not sure whether this takes into account, microplastics from motor vehicles but that would make them even worse) . I get somewhat irritated then, when Lord Goldsmith in a Zoom meeting with the Global Plastic Action Partnership, goes into self-congratulatory mode about the UK 'throwing its weight' behind a new global agreement to tackle the plastic pollution crisis (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/19/uk-to-support-plans-for-new-global-treaty-to-turn-tide-on-plastic-pollution). It is important to note, that neither the US (predictably, at the moment) nor the UK (represented by Goldsmith) have yet pledged their support for the agreement. As they say, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions". Action, rather than throwing one's weight about is needed at the moment.