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Sorry, but (sugary) drinks in plastic bottles are just bullshit products that should not exist at all. Production costs are almost zero, health and environment

by myshpa 3y ago

Sorry, but (sugary) drinks in plastic bottles are just bullshit products that should not exist at all. Production costs are almost zero, health and environmental impacts are extreme. Warren Buffett is the villain. Coca-Cola too. Governments as well. The system as well. I hope that shaming works. Nothing else has brought any change yet.

csallen 3y ago
You're missing what was literally the entire point of my comment, which is that government action has worked. Shaming the wrong party does not work, regardless of your personal opinion on what the rest of humanity "should" enjoy consuming.
- myshpa 3y ago
  > government action has worked I don't think that it did. And I don't care about what the humanity is consuming, as long as it doesn't pollute the world excessively. Your rights end where my rights begin, etc.
  - csallen 3y ago
    What do you think explains why America has none of the top 10 polluting rivers? And only one of the top 1000? Despite the fact that we use massive amounts of plastic relative to most other countries, and that we are the headquarters of Coca-Cola. It's laws. It's society. It's government. It's mobilization by citizens to get the government to regulate waste disposal -- to make improper disposal of waste illegal, and to fund the creation of easily-accessible environmentally-friendly waste disposal mechanisms. Consuming soft drinks does not pollute the environment. Throwing bottles into rivers does. Your disdain for soft drinks has you mistaking these for the same thing.
    - myshpa 3y ago
      Maybe. Or maybe you export your trash to other countries, to whomever takes it for the least amount of money, and they dump it into the river. We'll never know. I'm not against soft drinks, again. I'm against plastic pollution, be it from plastic bottles or from textiles or packaging materials or whatever. Producing plastic causes plastic pollution, no matter how it's disposed of.

by myshpa 3y ago

csallen 3y ago

You're missing what was literally the entire point of my comment, which is that government action has worked. Shaming the wrong party does not work, regardless of your personal opinion on what the rest of humanity "should" enjoy consuming.

myshpa 3y ago
> government action has worked I don't think that it did. And I don't care about what the humanity is consuming, as long as it doesn't pollute the world excessively. Your rights end where my rights begin, etc.
- csallen 3y ago
  What do you think explains why America has none of the top 10 polluting rivers? And only one of the top 1000? Despite the fact that we use massive amounts of plastic relative to most other countries, and that we are the headquarters of Coca-Cola. It's laws. It's society. It's government. It's mobilization by citizens to get the government to regulate waste disposal -- to make improper disposal of waste illegal, and to fund the creation of easily-accessible environmentally-friendly waste disposal mechanisms. Consuming soft drinks does not pollute the environment. Throwing bottles into rivers does. Your disdain for soft drinks has you mistaking these for the same thing.
  - myshpa 3y ago
    Maybe. Or maybe you export your trash to other countries, to whomever takes it for the least amount of money, and they dump it into the river. We'll never know. I'm not against soft drinks, again. I'm against plastic pollution, be it from plastic bottles or from textiles or packaging materials or whatever. Producing plastic causes plastic pollution, no matter how it's disposed of.