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> This article rant on the imperfect nature of our current solutions for plastic, ignore part of the problems (like the floating island of plastics...) and does
by yodon 4y ago
> This article rant on the imperfect nature of our current solutions for plastic, ignore part of the problems (like the floating island of plastics...) and doesn't provide any alternative solution.
The article focused on fundamental problems with plastic recycling and specifically focused on the root causes of the floating island of plastics. Rant is an unusual term to apply to a rational, reasoned, and thoughtful analysis of a hard problem where the superficially "obvious" solutions are demonstrably ineffective and counter effective.
- zzzeek 4y agothis language is "ranting". terms like "delusional" and "obsessions" are emotionally charged and reveal the author's anger: > The group’s overall policy remains delusional—the report proposes a far more harmful alternative to recycling—but it’s nonetheless encouraging to see environmentalists put aside their obsessions long enough to contemplate reality.
- yodon 4y agoSeveral decades of profoundly flawed policy on an important economic or environmental topic is enough to make most people angry. That doesn't in itself make a well written article a rant, nor does the quote you cited make it a rant, though it may well make it an article you disagree with, which is quite different from a rant.
- kalkin 4y ago"rational, reasoned and thoughtful" are unusual terms for an article that's fundamentally dishonest about where promotion of plastic recycling has come from: it's never been something environmentalists advocated (as anything more than slightly better than nothing, anyway), but rather is basically greenwashing by the plastics industry, whose trade organizations are the main source of claims that plastics recycling can be efficient. The article also doesn't really attempt to demonstrate that the alternative of using less plastic is ineffective, although that might be true; a mocking aside about syringes, which are obviously not at the top of anybody's list for replacement, is not a demonstration.
- yodon 4y ago> plastic recycling has ... never been something environmentalists advocated We've lived through very different past few decades if you think environmentalists were not also advocates of plastic recycling, alongside the petrochemical industry. I fully agree that plastic recycling is greenwashing, but plastic recycling is greenwashing that 99% of environmentalists bought into and championed with gusto. Recycling plastic sounds like a great idea, it just doesn't happen to be a viable idea. That's a very hard message for most environmentalists to hear.