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A plastic coke bottle, a plastic burger wrapper, a plastic child's toy, and a plastic shopping bag aren't keeping anyone alive. That's what we're referring to h
by acabal 5y ago
A plastic coke bottle, a plastic burger wrapper, a plastic child's toy, and a plastic shopping bag aren't keeping anyone alive. That's what we're referring to here: single-use junk plastic.
In terms of plastic used in the fishing industry, the fishing industry did just fine without plastic nets for again, millennia.
- colechristensen 5y agoAnd those are all a tiny proportion of the plastics used in the world and banning them would only be an inconvenience, waste of energy, and moral show that would not accomplish the stated goals. People don’t care about what they can’t see, and focusing on that means you do not really care about the problem.
- parineum 5y agoAll that plastic is used for economic/efficiency reasons. Those increases in productivity are part of what allows us to support more than triple the population of the world since plastic's inception.
- glial 5y agoPlastic --> efficiency --> overpopulation --> more plastic? Whatever you're selling, I'm not buying it.
- colechristensen 5y agoOverpopulation isn’t and won’t be an issue. With tough economics and dense living, advanced economies have shrinking populations and less advanced economies are all headed in the same direction. During Covid times several US states have had more yearly deaths than booths which is a all time first occurrence.
- mekkie 5y agoYou forgot a plastic straw (lol) although I wonder if those are really as bad as the rap they've gotten or there are more detrimental plastics that we don't even think about