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âOut of crisis comes clarityâ wrote the Irish author, Randolph OâToole. And so today, after witnessing the events of January 6, we have better clarity on the fragility of our democracy and the endemic racism and xenophobia that led up to it. Likewise, the pandemic has shone light on the primacy of science in determining responses to this crisis.
Not long ago, we focused greater attention on a different crisis â the glut of plastics poisoning our waterways and oceans and entering our food chain. Our town and towns like ours led the way in banning single-use plastic bags. Soon after, our state legislature passed the most comprehensive restrictions on single-use plastic in the country when Gov. Scott signed S. 113, a bill prohibiting retailers from providing customers with single use plastic bags as well as plastic stirrers at the checkout counter (our own Senator Balint was a co-sponsor).