I'm not sure when "virtue signalling" became the new buzzword to attack people with. It seems these days that if you don't like someone you accuse them of virtu

I'm not sure when "virtue signalling" became the new buzzword to attack people with. It seems these days that if you don't like someone you accuse them of virtue signalling, and if I understand the term correcty, accusing anyone of virtue signalling is itself a form of virtue signalling. Yes, I realize, this is an ironic paragraph, because I'm virtue signalling by accusing you of accusing someone else of virtue signalling. Now onto the actual topic -- While I agree with you that fixing failed states should be of utmost concern I don't think it's a bad thing to be banning plastic items now, one at a time, because we don't currently have a good way to truly recycle plastic, and the material should be avoided at all costs for anything not intended to be reused for years. Plastic is an immediate environmental problem and the bans are actionable. However, my opinion is that the bans are suboptimally directed. I frequently get served drinks in plastic non-compostable cups with bamboo straws now, and see supermarket vegetables on goddamn styrofoam trays wrapped in plastic wrap, and "harmless" coconut water sold in plastic drink bottles. I'm cool with plastic bag bans but they need to extend beyond plastic bags. Ban the cup, then the straw. Ban the foam trays and plastic wrap on vegetables, then the bag.