The whole straw topic has been a minor smokescreen from serious, bigger issues anyhow. Your straws barely add much to the pollution on our planet; meanwhile, fossil fuels still lobby for government policies, control large financial institutes, control the media in its myriad forms, astroturf or top-bottom propagate misinformation on a scale never seen before, and do all kinds of other bullshit to mind control the population. Meanwhile, that guy's exhaust and our straws are close to the least of our problems. You and I shouldn't even be having this fucking discussion if our government(s) properly handled climate change >50 years ago. Instead, here we are.
The FF industry new about the negative effects of their product in 1959. Think about where we'd be if they had done the decent thing and not lied about it for profit.
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u/Paraselene_Tao 1d ago
The whole straw topic has been a minor smokescreen from serious, bigger issues anyhow. Your straws barely add much to the pollution on our planet; meanwhile, fossil fuels still lobby for government policies, control large financial institutes, control the media in its myriad forms, astroturf or top-bottom propagate misinformation on a scale never seen before, and do all kinds of other bullshit to mind control the population. Meanwhile, that guy's exhaust and our straws are close to the least of our problems. You and I shouldn't even be having this fucking discussion if our government(s) properly handled climate change >50 years ago. Instead, here we are.