Green Energy

Thing is these corporations don't emit in a vacuum, they emit to fill demand for their products, demand that comes from people.

If people stop traveling all over the world and ordering shit to be delivered the next day they won't keep the planes flying for no reason, but that's something that's 100% in regular people's hands. Boeing can use more efficient engines, it's still not sustainable to use them, but they won't stop using them if there's demand.

Yeah, I absolutely agree with this sentiment. The whole plastic mess really grinds my gears.

The straw thing is classic "industry reference group consultation" stuff. Regulators asked the companies that manufacture stuff wrapped in plastic what they should do, and they said "no more shopping bags!" and "cardboard straws!", and now consumers feel like they've endured some hardship and solved the plastic problem. Meanwhile the assholes can keep selling everything wrapped in plastic because that's the cheapest way to sell it.

About a year ago I noticed plastic products at the shop like wraps and bin bags with "50% ocean plastic" or some such. They define ocean plastic as plastic collected from communities within 100km of the ocean which have no other plastic reclamation facilities. In Australia 99.99% of the population lives within 100km of the ocean. City Councils pay companies to process waste. If you take the plastic from those companies then it meets their shitty definition of "ocean plastic". So in summary, they're not saving any dolphins, but using the plight of the dolphins to sell more plastic. Assholes.

Regulators need to regulate these cunts. Add a levy to any product that includes plastic. Start at 1% and increase by 1% each year forever. I have absolutely no doubt that within just a few years your local supermarket will be awash with products enclosed in amazing polymers comprised of frog spit and corn starch that were invented 80 years ago.

That's a psyop...

If you really care that much about straws, just don't fucking use them... JFC

Amazing how capiatlist parasite never suggests less consumption but instead offers idiotic solutions to the problems it made up lol

This is almost exactly what the article says doesn't work. We've been laying the bulk of the responsibility on average consumers--figure out your consumption, find better options--before insisting that corporations make better options available for consumers.

So, why not try putting some of the responsibility on the largest polluters first for a change? Jail or prison time instead of fines for the decision makers knowingly contaminating environments because it's cheaper than doing things right, high corporate taxes to fund environmental remediation for the damage already done, penalties for continuing to produce goods in wasteful and unnecessary plastic packaging, incentives for work towards innovative, environmentally sound materials science and engineering. We haven't tried any of these things, we've just been telling consumers, "There are better options out there, use those. It's your responsibility!"

Like geez, it's not as if consumers will stop bringing their own bags to the grocery store or using the reusable straws they already bought. Lots of us are already invested in doing better than we have in the past. We can continue to educate the public while also updating our legislation to drive corporate participation in the process. Why wouldn't we?

Just outlaw private car ownership and less-than-middle-haul planes. Climate crisis solved.

This is why regulation is needed in this space. Individuals are way to selfish to take these steps on our own.