counterpoint boba, but people complaining about paper straws is one of the silliest things to result out of climate "action"
obviously if you are injured or medically need to use a straw ie you have parkinson's etc. you need a straw, but paper straws are not that bad and carrying around a metal straw is also not that bad if you dislike the paper straws / use straws often enough to justify a metal one
I guess I just reject the framing that it's a tangible sacrifice to stop using single use plastic stuff, which should have been common practice for years before it happened
Paper straws never were a climate action
Using plastic bags so I don't destroy more trees to carry my groceries to the car. And then using paper straws so I don't use too much plastic.
No, I will never use metal. No, I will never use fabrics. They're too inconvenient and I will never adequately explain why.
Comrade it really sounds like you’re making up environmental policy to get mad at, and to be honest your sourness about it comes off kind of chuddy.
Plastic over paper bags was never a choice made for environmental reasons paper was always better. Paper straws over plastic is also, objectively, better fit the environment. Metal straws are a thing and a lot of people use them, their use has significantly expanded since we started thinking about plastic waste. Fabric bags are encouraged, incentivized or required at every store I go to now.
Honestly I’m not sure what you’re mad at here. Passing laws against businesses being able to mass produce cheap disposable plastics is good.
Right. But then "everything must be disposable" was absolutely a political choice mandated by my very own Texas state government.
My home state is comically reactionary and routinely makes political hay every time any city tries to do even the most milquetoast liberal reform.