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> People know plastic bottles pollute. They know big cars pollute. Yet they buy them. I wouldn't be so sure about that. If you think global warming is a hoax
by ardy42 6y ago
> People know plastic bottles pollute. They know big cars pollute. Yet they buy them.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. If you think global warming is a hoax and your city has no air quality problems, do you know big cars pollute? Do you know your plastic bottles pollute, if you always put them in a recycle bin (and never check to see what happens to the contents of those bins)?
- amiga_500 6y agoYes to both questions. Recycling isn't magic. It takes energy. People know big cars pollute. They don't care.
- ardy42 6y ago> Recycling isn't magic. It takes energy. It does, but the question is do "people" know that. I'd wager a good chunk of them haven't spent a second thinking about it. It's easier and happier to pat yourself for dropping your waste into the "right" bin and move on. > People know big cars pollute. They don't care. I don't think it's that simple. I think there's a strong consensus that "pollution" is bad, so resistance morphs into a denial that a particular thing is a pollutant. Restricting the discussion to CO2 for simplicity: if someone thinks global warming is a hoax, they'd deny that their car pollutes the air because they "know" CO2 doesn't cause any harm.
- amiga_500 6y agoloads of middle class people have huge cars. they know. they don't believe in the trash USA global warming as conspiracy thing. and they don't care.