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  • M [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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    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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    • M [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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      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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      • T [email protected]

        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.

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        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

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          Private Jets are not the problem. The top 1% must be outlawed.

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          I would say both. Multifaceted approach. If there’s a legitimate use case for private jets, maybe they could be allowed once we’ve transitioned to clean energy.

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            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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            Part of the reason is because the first place I saw posts like this was on right wing spaces. They were often trying to say how climate activists like Greta or Bill Nye or even celebrities that try to push climate action are also using private jets or other modes of transportation to get around.

            On the surface it sounds good. But I guarantee you this is a primer.

            It's a way to target climate activists and force them to target by bicycle. It's goal is to make any climate action hypocritical.

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            • tensilespark@lemmy.todayT [email protected]

              It looks like about 68% of the world has internet access so I would say no. Source

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              And they also would own a computer and likely a rental or mortgage. You only need to be making $60000 a year to be considered the global 1%

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              • T [email protected]

                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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                The manufacture of straws on that scale can't be simple to ramp up though. Maybe they just speculated correctly on paper utensil production capacity?

                Either way, there are opportunities for fast large scale change out there.

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                • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksS [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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                  Recycling paper (or not recycling) is far better than plastic is every respect. It's not so much futility in this case so much as inefficiency.

                  Paper also is rarely, if ever, fully recycled, usually being downcycled into rougher and rougher materials like cardboard and egg cartons. No matter how well it gets recycled, it's not going to displace primary production.

                  If you want to talk about futility here, the problem is way bigger than recycling. It's consumerism, unrestrained capitalism, and ROI of power now vs power later. No amount of recycling of any quality will fix the world alonge but it is one step of many.

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                    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

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                    What is it about flat warm soda that appeals to you?

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                    • B [email protected]

                      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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                      My nest app tells me the same, while there’s a strip mall of 8 stores with neon bright signs that stay on 24/7 directly across from my apt balcony. I’d have a great view of the mountains in the AC but nah the fuckin tanning salon deserves that juice

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                        What is it about flat warm soda that appeals to you?

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                        It's not that warm flat sodas appeal to me, but rather that carbonated drinks are painful to drink too quickly. If I have a paper straw, it's also going to be accompanied by a meal, which takes time to eat. Also, if I'm getting a more interesting drink like a smoothie, slush, boba, etc, then I usually get something fairly large to enjoy over a long period of time.

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                          Part of the reason is because the first place I saw posts like this was on right wing spaces. They were often trying to say how climate activists like Greta or Bill Nye or even celebrities that try to push climate action are also using private jets or other modes of transportation to get around.

                          On the surface it sounds good. But I guarantee you this is a primer.

                          It's a way to target climate activists and force them to target by bicycle. It's goal is to make any climate action hypocritical.

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                          I guess we’ll have to make our own memes that are similar but convey the proper message about capitalism and institutional responsibility.

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                          • U [email protected]

                            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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                            Seth Meyers just had one of his podcast eps where Ike Barinholtz talked about getting a sunburn and trying to do a gig the same night and because he looked so rough between sets a waitress at the club suggested he use yogurt to cool down his thighs. He ended up smearing it around with his pants down when some random woman walked into his dressing room thinking it was the bathroom.

                            Story's toward the end of the clip:

                            https://player.fm/series/family-trips-with-the-meyers-brothers/family-trips-live-from-amsterdam

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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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                              I'm kinda to the point where it feels like nothing us normies do will change anything so until billionaires are illegal it's basically like fuck it.

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                              • B [email protected]

                                I guess we’ll have to make our own memes that are similar but convey the proper message about capitalism and institutional responsibility.

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                                Honestly fuck yea. We are sleeping on how important memes and shit posts are too keeping pressure on and spreading ideas.

                                Just an example, Mehdi was on Jubilee the other day. The amount of clips is incredible. If I clip one, where do I share it here on Lemmy that would be worth the effort?

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                                  Being ecologically friendly is its own reward.

                                  If your neighbor's house and lawn is cluttered with garbage and rotting food, do you also let your house gather the same?

                                  Or do you wish they did a better job and kept your house clean all the same?

                                  What if you had 95 neighbors all full of garbage and rotted food? Is there any number that would make you do the same?

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                                  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zipT [email protected]

                                    I'm kinda to the point where it feels like nothing us normies do will change anything so until billionaires are illegal it's basically like fuck it.

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                                    Eating one billionaire would do more for the environment than all the conservation and recycling we do

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                                      My nest app tells me the same, while there’s a strip mall of 8 stores with neon bright signs that stay on 24/7 directly across from my apt balcony. I’d have a great view of the mountains in the AC but nah the fuckin tanning salon deserves that juice

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                                      A while ago, when the energy crisis was in full swing, I emailed a corporation that owns a large office building in town, that's completely covered with a light display (basically tower-scale christmas lights) that they should please turn off that energy waster.

                                      Their response was like "Our lighting is eco-friendly, because once a month we turn it green to show our commitment to green energy, and that offsets all the energy consumption."

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                                        Being ecologically friendly is its own reward.

                                        If your neighbor's house and lawn is cluttered with garbage and rotting food, do you also let your house gather the same?

                                        Or do you wish they did a better job and kept your house clean all the same?

                                        What if you had 95 neighbors all full of garbage and rotted food? Is there any number that would make you do the same?

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                                        Not quite a compare - you can move house, you can't move planet. It's not that I would stop looking after my own garden if my neighbours weren't looking after theirs. It just feels pointless. Using your analogy, if all surrounding neighbours had rotten rubbish in their garden, no matter what you would do, it would still stink in your garden.

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                                          This is exactly why I don't beat myself up over any of this shit... I will do what I can within my own power, but I don't go out of my way to stop using plastic forks or anything like that. It's pointless.

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