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What about metal straws, reusable and dont break

• dymk 3y ago
  Feels bad on the teeth and is a good way to lobotomize yourself if you trip
  • picture 3y ago
    And enormous embodied energy. They are not any better for the environment unless you use a metal straw for like 10 years
    • TeMPOraL 3y ago
      This is what we get when we make decisions based on panicked masses and noise they generate in the news. That banning plastic straws made zero sense, and was actually counterproductive to humanity's survival in general (distracting from and confusing people about climate change), was obvious to anyone who paused to do some basic math. But people who kept panicking each other about it didn't, and people making the decisions seemingly didn't either (or they did, and went through with it anyway, just to shut the "environmentalists" up). I fear the same will be the case here - I mean, the very term, "forever chemicals", is already a clear giveaway that the topic is discussed and reasoned about in nonsensical categories. Occasional scientific paper that tries to navigate around this term won't help when the overall discussion is consumed by magical thinking.