I'm doing my part!
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IIRC plastic recycling is basically bullshit (except maybe PET bottles?) but aluminum is actually effective. Makes you wonder why we don't use more aluminum packaging in general.
Yeah, I'm going to update my comment. Metal recycling is genuinely good, and recycling makes an enormous impact on the production of new metal
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I get the feeling this is somehow also criticizing this particular woman. Someone did a small good thing, while others do bad things on a very large scale. What a naive idiot! Not a very helpful sentiment. One needs to look up for moral guidance, not down.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I think it's more of a comment on futility than her being naive if you're looking at what her role is in this meme.
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I get the feeling this is somehow also criticizing this particular woman. Someone did a small good thing, while others do bad things on a very large scale. What a naive idiot! Not a very helpful sentiment. One needs to look up for moral guidance, not down.
I think it's more like a response to the way one of these things is given a disproportionate amount of time and attention. We're all expected to micromanage every aspect of our lives to diminish our comparatively miniscule impact of personal choice while the state and the ruling class just do whatever the fuck they want actively slaughtering the environment for fun.
You know what would help me minimize my carbon footprint a lot? Public transportation. A renewable energy grid. Affordable food created along sustainable and environmentally conscious supply chains. Electronics and clothing that is manufactured with long term use, maintenance, and recyclability in mind.
Those things are all out of my reach to implement. Me properly sorting my recyclables (which i do) is such a minor impact compared with those other things. Any offsetting done by proper recycling is immediately undone the moment i step into a grocery store, having driven there in my car for lack of public transportation, and buy food that was wastefully produced and transported to my grocery store via fossil fuel based energy.
The majority of our time and energy should be going into fighting back against the state and the ruling class who refuse to structure society around environmental impact, not on almost the almost irrelevant impact of individual workers. We can and should promote recycling, but we can hammer home that point when our whole society isn't top down engineered with total indifference to the environment.
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My Air conditioner tells me to conserve energy for the environment, when it gets warm out. Meanwhile the mall behind my house runs the lights and AC 24/7 even when closed
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Slightly off topic, but I find it goddamn funny that someone like MrBeast made a bootleg copy of squid game on his YouTube channel, considering the entire point of the programme was to show that billionaires will do whatever evil they please and get away without any single negative consequence. Not that the premise was too subtle, considering that the villains use humans as literal footrests. How someone can be this tone deaf or uncaring is beyond my understanding.
Edit: I just remembered it's the guy selling kids highly processed food with rotten cheese on top. So, considering that, I'm not too surprised. Just slightly.
the irony is lost in them. but at the same time, reinforces the point of the show
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Can I have a fucking plastic bendy straw now?
I'd rather have a regular one, no idea why you want a bendy straw that fucks.
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Honestly I don't give one shit about the paper straws. I wonder if the people who don't like them let their drinks sit for hours and chew on the straw till they're soggy. Every paper straw I've had has lasted the length of time it takes me to drink the drink.
Still banning those things but not fucking everything else in the supermarket that is packaged in plastic is such a massive and stupid waste of everyone's time and effort. Such an imperceptible inch forward they almost deserve no praise at all.
It was a surprisingly fast change, to the extent that I wonder if they weren't planning something along those lines as an industry wide PR stunt or lobbied industry takeover already. Or maybe paper straw machines are just really easy to setup.
It does show that widespread lasting change is possible. Even if it's just a single step, we won't get anywhere if we stop taking them.
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True, that honor belongs solely to metal. Glass is mostly recyclable, though most types of it that aren't bottles will just be thrown in the trash. Paper is in theory recyclable, but putting that in recycle bins is basically just as effective as putting plastic in. Neither of those actually helps as long as we're producing more and more paper and more and more glass every year. The only thing that helps is reducing production.
Paper can be composted or burnt, and will decompose relatively quickly if dumped. I can't see any post-use situation where paper is anywhere nearly as bad as plastic.
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It was a surprisingly fast change, to the extent that I wonder if they weren't planning something along those lines as an industry wide PR stunt or lobbied industry takeover already. Or maybe paper straw machines are just really easy to setup.
It does show that widespread lasting change is possible. Even if it's just a single step, we won't get anywhere if we stop taking them.
The reality is more like there are just a few massive suppliers for restaurants. Sysco just offers paper straws and removes plastic ones and every establishment just orders a different SKU the next week.
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I get the feeling this is somehow also criticizing this particular woman. Someone did a small good thing, while others do bad things on a very large scale. What a naive idiot! Not a very helpful sentiment. One needs to look up for moral guidance, not down.
I feel this is cooked up by energy company's in the same way that "snowballs in july" was but I'm not sure how.
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It's not the woman that's being criticized, it's the people claiming that the ones not doing that bear all the blame for damaging the environment.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]except it reads as if its all useless and dumb. I don't understand how people don't see this as that?
It's not created to get people to be more on board with climate change policy. It's meant to point out that we just shouldn't do any of it.
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Private Jets are not the problem. The top 1% must be outlawed.
we're all online on a computer. Aren't we the global 1%?
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Paper can be composted or burnt, and will decompose relatively quickly if dumped. I can't see any post-use situation where paper is anywhere nearly as bad as plastic.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]What does that have to do with the production of new paper? Deforestation remains an ever increasing problem. It's not as bad as plastic, but recycling it is just as futile
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Don't worry. When he recycles those jets next weekend he'll separate the plastics from the metals.
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Honestly I don't give one shit about the paper straws. I wonder if the people who don't like them let their drinks sit for hours and chew on the straw till they're soggy. Every paper straw I've had has lasted the length of time it takes me to drink the drink.
Still banning those things but not fucking everything else in the supermarket that is packaged in plastic is such a massive and stupid waste of everyone's time and effort. Such an imperceptible inch forward they almost deserve no praise at all.
It is always "Look, we are actually trying to help the climate" types of government. Helping to build sustainable shit? Put money towards developing open, essy to implement, and easy to service standards? Nah, we will pay a billion dollars towards some bullshit that will be forgotten in a year and 80% (if not more) of the cash will be pocketed by billionaires (to use towards lobbying either against shit that will lose em money or shit that will make em money) because the contract was overpriced.
Fuck humanity, seriously. I just wish we will get a revolution before we burn to a crisp.
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so what's the verdict on hot sauce and yogurt
edit i think i meant that for elsewhere but fuck this, that's a good headline in the image, and fuck this again
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we're all online on a computer. Aren't we the global 1%?
It looks like about 68% of the world has internet access so I would say no. Source
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except it reads as if its all useless and dumb. I don't understand how people don't see this as that?
It's not created to get people to be more on board with climate change policy. It's meant to point out that we just shouldn't do any of it.
I just don’t agree with you about that. I don’t think yours is a ridiculous read on it, I just don’t perceive that myself. I think the part you are mentioning is what you’re inferring, not what it’s implying or stating.
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except it reads as if its all useless and dumb. I don't understand how people don't see this as that?
It's not created to get people to be more on board with climate change policy. It's meant to point out that we just shouldn't do any of it.
It does read useless but not necessarily dumb, just in vain. For me it acknowledges that we should put a lot more responsibility for the rich and powerful undermining our collective effort.
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Honestly I don't give one shit about the paper straws. I wonder if the people who don't like them let their drinks sit for hours and chew on the straw till they're soggy. Every paper straw I've had has lasted the length of time it takes me to drink the drink.
Still banning those things but not fucking everything else in the supermarket that is packaged in plastic is such a massive and stupid waste of everyone's time and effort. Such an imperceptible inch forward they almost deserve no praise at all.
I wonder if the people who don't like them let their drinks sit for hours
Yes
and chew on the straw till they're soggy
No
