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This elicits an emotional response from my acquaintances, but this gets to the main objection I have about feel-good measures like banning plastic straws. I un
by gedy 8y ago
This elicits an emotional response from my acquaintances, but this gets to the main objection I have about feel-good measures like banning plastic straws. I understand the "everything helps" argument, but not when people and the media pour their energy and emotions into statistically meaningless measures then move on. I've been hearing the same concerns my entire life, yet things keep getting worse in statistically meaningful ways.
- sdenton4 8y agoIt's almost like all of the responsibility is out on individuals, while large industrial interests are exempt from consideration. Strange how that happened...
- erikpukinskis 8y agoI call it do-your-partism and it’s a big part of the reason we have so many problems that people seem to care about that aren’t getting solved.