You’re talking about two different ways to screw the environment. One is the rampant plastics pandemic, the other is carbon emissions. Paper straws are meant to combat the first, not the second.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While that's true, I think the complaint here is that the the law deliberately harms poor people only. Instead of banning individual plastic applications, we should be taxing literally all plastics and letting consumers decide what's worth it. And if we are to take a case-by-case class warfare approach, we should be going after the excesses of the wealthy - like private jets.

It's not that they're the same thing, it's that they both hurt the environment and are treated very differently.

[–] Prezhotnuts@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Wait till they find out what plastic is made out of and how that impacts carbon emissions.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Downvote this man and his factual statement!!!

The popular comments are all about how recycling is a scam to allow plastic companies to continue creating plastics.

But mushy straws isn’t even about recycling. You’re literally removing a plastic that people use all the time. Sounds like a win no matter what.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 1 year ago

My number one pet peeve:

hey here's one some concession we can do to make the planet slightly better.

Most people in the US:

if it doesn't t solve all of our problems 100% I'm not going to think about doing so. What it only makes life slightly better for us? Nope fuck that it means I have to be slightly inconvenienced for it, I'm not willing to do that. Come back when it'll fix everything 100% and then I'll find more excuses to why I don't have to change.