This is indicative of what I think is the primary problem we're all dealing with: we are all told to buy EVs and compost and recycle. It's OUR fault the Earth i

This is indicative of what I think is the primary problem we're all dealing with: we are all told to buy EVs and compost and recycle. It's OUR fault the Earth is dying. The consumers.... Which is HORSESHIT. Doritos bags made of shiny plastic, microplastics in products, pesticides used on crops... All of these things are corporate driven decisions. Those bags are used for chips because they make the shelf life longer, saving them money. Microplastics make it easier and cheaper to produce exfoliating products, which could be done with pumice or other stuff that's more expensive. Pesticides increase crop yield, increasing the bottom line. So while us consumers are out here fretting over how our single coke can not recycled is killing the planet, large corporations make decisions every day that either make them money or save them money, and do irreparable harm to the world. But instead of fixing these problems, they run ads to tell us to recycle. That highly concentrated soap you use on your dishes that goes into the water supply? It's got a baby duck on the bottle so you can feel better about using it! We lie to ourselves about all of this. Individual changes in behavior make no difference. The things we litter and don't recycle should simply not be there in the first place. I buy a lot of bacon, but it always comes in an un-resealable plastic bag, so they want you to use a Ziplock on it to put it in your fridge. Shit like that. 100 million decisions made by businesses every day killing the Earth. And we get blamed for it as peons. Explain to me why we have to fly empty planes around the world just to make sure those airlines don't lose their terminal rights? Everything we do every day is optimized to make money at the expense of every other possible method of worth. We forgo reason, we forgo safety, we give up our world to make money. That's not going to change until there's no money left to earn, and we're all fighting over food. We know how to fix this. Go to Marin and see their waste reclamation site. There is no landfill in that county. They recycle and compost and handle everything, even hazardous wastes like paint. We have the tech, we know how to do it. But we don't. This entire comment section is full of the main reason why: y'all want yer money. Gotta make that paper. Fuck the world, I want mine. Glad I never had kids.