Not disagreeing with you. I think it’s not an either/or situation. Nor do I think it’s specifically the fault of consumers themselves. It is the environment of

Not disagreeing with you. I think it’s not an either/or situation. Nor do I think it’s specifically the fault of consumers themselves. It is the environment of social norms we’ve created. Wastefulness is for all intents and purposes just a facet of our culture from consumers up to corporations. We don’t worry about the costs we needn’t immediately bear. So yeah - wasn’t an indictment of people or a shrugging off of responsibility on the part of corporations and governments to regulate and manage the issue. I just also lament seeing the manifestations of it in the average person, feeling compelled to throw more useful shit out to replace it with moderately newer shit of practically identical utility.