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Yes, also no one considered the negative externalities in terms of public sentiment. Drinking through a floppy paper straw is unpleasant and it leads to snarky
by aeternum 2y ago
Yes, also no one considered the negative externalities in terms of public sentiment. Drinking through a floppy paper straw is unpleasant and it leads to snarky comments and negative sentiment about environmentalism.
The effect is not measurable and it was a knee-jerk reaction to a viral video rather than data driven. It acts as evidence that environmentalism has become mostly political rather than scientific.
- qball 2y ago>Drinking through a floppy paper straw is unpleasant but leads to positive sentiments around environmentalism for environmentalists Which is all you really need to know about why they did it. The vast majority of people dispose of their trash correctly, and if you're worried about your own plastic waste ending up dumped into the Pacific via third-world recycling then doing it on-continent would result in cleaning up more than just straws.
- aeternum 2y agoInteresting, yeah thinking more about this it probably applies to recycling also. Separating your plastics is mostly useless as they just get shipped to third world countries where they are mostly dumped or burned. But that act of sorting and shaming others for not doing it definitely makes a certain subset of people feel better about themselves.
- AmericanChopper 2y agoEvery time I end up with a soggy paper straw sticking out the top of a disposable plastic cup I contemplate the credibility of modern environmentalism politics.