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>Humans made it very, very long without plastics and PFAS. Yeah, sure. Pre-industrial population level with pre-industrial living conditions and life expectanc

• _heimdall 3y ago
  That's totally reasonable, though I assume that means you also accept, and don't complain about, environmental damage, global warming, or any of the health conditions related to environmental contaminants from plastics and their manufacturing. I'd also assume that you don't see EVs as a practical solution, or any non-petroleum engine, since plastics can't be made without oil and it'd be crazy to drill enough oil to keep our post-industrial lives without using the refined gas and diesel that we'd be creating anyway.
  • weregiraffe 3y ago
    In the long term, we are all dead anyway. In the short term, nuclear power could solve all these problems if people weren't idiots.
  • datadrivenangel 3y ago
    Disagree. If we can fix some downside of plastics, we ought to complain and take action.
    • _heimdall 3y ago
      What would that look like, fixing downsides of plastics? Are you thinking about a top-down government fix, or a more bottom-up fix driven by consumers unwilling to use plastics?