>people are more interested in absolving themselves from guilt than actually coming up with legitimate solutions to plastic waste Yep, it's pure politics, and

>people are more interested in absolving themselves from guilt than actually coming up with legitimate solutions to plastic waste Yep, it's pure politics, and it's not much different than any other political situation. Most of the people speaking up are more concerned with HOW a problem is addressed, rather than IF that problem is actually addressed. They don't ask for less crime or mass murder, they ask for gun control. They don't ask for lower unemployment, they ask for immigration enforcement. And, politicians are only measured by whether they implemented those specific controls, and not at all for whether they actually managed to make progress towards solving or reducing a problem.