FWIW straw bans and recycling are typically not really about carbon at all, more about the impact of waste. Recycling can sometimes have a meaningful carbon imp

FWIW straw bans and recycling are typically not really about carbon at all, more about the impact of waste. Recycling can sometimes have a meaningful carbon impact, but it can also be carbon positive in many cases. But I really dislike the attitude of "well this thing isn't going to solve climate change, and the real problem is industry/agriculture/government/etc, so we shouldn't bother doing it." Of course we should. We should all try to make incremental changes to respect the environment more. It's just lazy reasoning to try to justify continuing to live a lifestyle that damages the environment without having to question it.