Delegates from 180 countries met up at the UN’s facilities in Geneva to discuss the latest environmentalist plot to ban something.

This time plastic.

The usual game plan for these schemes is to declare that the thing you want to ban (gas stoves, plastic bags, cars, breathing) is an urgent crisis and that the only reason that the ban hasn’t gone through yet is the evil influence of Big ‘Something’ which is determined to destroy the future for its personal profit.

Then it proposes adding a tax to the cost of whatever is being paid, in this case plastic, to fund environmentalist efforts.

Basically, this is an Al Capone shakedown in green socialist drag.

The latest effort to tax, limit and then ban plastic production fell apart though as various delegates quarreled over who was getting the money and how much would be added, and despite a demand from France’s Macron and various other lefty nonprofits like Pew, nothing got done. And he latest shakedown scheme to make your life worse burned a lot of money, a lot of fuel and accomplished nothing.

So they’ll be flying out to South Korea soon enough in their jets to ‘save the planet’ some more.