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Why Katy Perry’s celebrity spaceflight blazed a trail for climate breakdown
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I agree with your message, but the plastic straw issue has always been contemptible and a worthless form of virtue signaling in the context of each person's climate impact.
'Oh, no plastic straws for me, please! I want to save the planet,' spoken before reaching out the window of an air-conditioning-blasting, gas-guzzling SUV to grab a fistful of single-use plastic everything else and factory-farmed beef patties.
Yeah thats actually exactly why I said it. The solution to a lot of our problems exist and some even simple. Our entire lives have just been arranged to service the oligarchy.
Why do think they pushed recycling so hard instead of reduce and reuse. Recycling did not damage their bottom line and they lied about it.
All you gotta do to know the plastic bans were bullshit is to look at the sheer volume of disposable plastic that goes into your shopping cart.
Shopping bags and straws were targeted because they impact consumers, not corporate supply chains.
It's the classic move of individualising a systemic problem to distract people from focusing on the actual source. It was pioneered with littering, then recycling, carbon footprint, and others. The research shows it works to take the heat off of corporations, and the "solutions" that get sold to us don't work. None of them do.