Steve Cohen: “I want to thank the sponsor of this resolution. He has been a leader on this. And the fact is, they say that politicians…”

“I want to thank the sponsor of this resolution. He has been a leader on this. And the fact is, they say that politicians think of the next election, statesmen think of the next generation. This resolution is about the next generation. And the next generation and the generation after that need to have an Earth that they can inhabit that's similar to the Earth that was inhabited by our predecessors, because we are polluting it. And we need to be careful about what we are doing to the ocean. It's the last frontier, and we are polluting it greatly. I want to bring up the work of a lady, no relation to me, whose name is Dianna Cohen. Dianna is in Barcelona, Spain, and she is doing an exhibition on plastics. She is the founder of a group called the Plastic Pollution Coalition. The fact is, plastics break up and spread poisons and toxins that threaten our sea life, our marine life, get into our systems through our ingesting and eating those animals, and are a threat to our own present existence.”