> Why is the world so obsesed with plastic straws? The world? It's just the media and virtue signalers who are obsessed. Far less than 1% of the population. Sa

> Why is the world so obsesed with plastic straws? The world? It's just the media and virtue signalers who are obsessed. Far less than 1% of the population. Sadly, these people control the megaphone and makes it seem like "the world" is concerned. > [0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oi https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oi... Hilarious. The virtue signalers' manifesto - "Personal virtue is an eternally seductive goal in progressive movements, and the climate movement is no exception." > "Citizens see themselves as part of civil society, as actors in the political system" Actors. Don't they just follow direction? Sounds about right. > "I have 100% clean electricity at home because people organized to make that option and the solar and wind power behind it available." And I can guarantee that her "clean electricity" mostly comes from burning biomass, natural gas, etc. I'd bet all my upvotes on that. > I do some of my errands by bicycle because the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition worked for decades to put bicycle paths across the city and otherwise make it safer to get about on two wheels. Just some? Why not all of the errands? > That vegan options are available at a lot of fast-food chains is because enough consumers have created a profitable market for them. Vegan options exist because wealthy industrialists want to feed people processed slop instead of actual food. The people aren't hankering for some in/anti-human diet. Billionaire industrialists who want to make more money by creating a new industry paid PR firms to push veganism to dull minds. Just like tobacco companies supported "women's equality" a century ago to breakdown the taboo on female smoking and sell more cigarettes. The author of that article is why we have paper straws. The problem with virtue signaling is that the ends are the pseudo-virtue, not actual good. A virtue signalers feels good because he gave a bum $100, even though the bum used the $100 to buy drugs and kill himself. The author of the article virtue signals even though she produces more carbon pollution than 99.99999999999999999% of the human population. Think about that.