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Remember plastic is made of oil (petroleum) so people actually die for plastic.
by onreact-com 17y ago
Remember plastic is made of oil (petroleum) so people actually die for plastic.
- TrevorJ 17y agoHistorically people die over anything desirable. Food, land, water, gold. There's no solution other than fixing human nature itself.
- onreact-com 17y agoWhen did the US start the last war about food, land, water or gold?
- mrkurt 17y ago1) War doesn't have a monopoly on killing people. 2) We've forcefully relocated (and killed!) people for their land several times in the past few hundred years. 3) How much violence in this country is sparked over money? Michael Mann's made some pretty good movies dramatizing bank robberies that result in gunfights.
- onreact-com 17y agoSo what's your point? War over petroleum (and thus plastic) is not that bad because we kill for other reasons too? Come on!
- briancooley 17y agoMany common plastics are made from ethylene and propylene, which are byproducts of the refining process and for many years were simply burned in flares. The fact that those (formerly waste) gases are now turned into useful products is a turn for the better, I think. Eliminating plastic would have no significant impact on the exploration and production of oil. Things are not always as simple as they seem.
- onreact-com 17y agoSo why lead rising oil prices to higher costs of plastic if it's just trash or a "byproduct"? There is no future for oil based fuels and plastics if you want to keep this planet.