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> Your characterization of having the entire world stop using plastics “immediately” is a strawman. We had decades. You think we can just stop using plastics i

• EGreg 3y ago
  Of course, or at least massively reduce it, if we found alternatives that were good enough! Not “just” stop, but mandate some % of the savings go to R&D when Coca Cola or Snapple switches to Plastic. Tax that stuff! Look at what we did with CFCs globally when we came together — that is a massive success: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol We can also help reduce meat consumption gradually with more products like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods etc. but it is far better and more effective if the government gets involved and taxes factory farms. As a side note, I know the alternatives have to be good enough before people switch, because I have been building https://qbix.com https://qbix.com for OVER a decade, and only now we are ready to present an alternative to the Big Tech monopolies no one can exit because they lack viable alternatives. This problem is everywhere in capitalism.