People quoting that statistic are missing the point.
Why is it that some tiny number of companies are responsible for some tremendous percentage of greenhouse gas output?
It’s because they’re operating for profit and pollution comes from the point of production.
Of course someone has to transport the funco pops to the Walmart, so it’s not all at the factories that transform fossil hydrocarbons and trees into plastic dolls in cardboard boxes, but it’s that crazy percentage.
Can’t we just stop buying pops and stop that emission? No, because the pollution comes from the place they’re made and if you were a capitalist with a funco pops factory would you close down when everyone stops buying em or just make new molds to make something else? If you bought too many jet skis and can’t afford to retool, what’s the person who buys your factory gonna do, not make plastic shit?
No, they bought a plastic molding factory. They’re gonna make hydrocarbons into shapes they can sell.
People who use that stat to justify their individual choices are missing the point, individual choices don’t matter unless the social context they’re made in allows them to be effective.
It doesn’t matter that you throw your yogurt cup in the blue bin when it just gets collected and emptied into the pacific garbage raft.
It doesn’t matter that you threw your yogurt cup on the sidewalk when the street sweeper dumps into a shred and sort facility, you know, that exists and is real (this is sarcasm).
That doesn’t mean it’s okay to not care or throw your trash on the ground or whatever, just that saving the planet isn’t the reason it’s not okay.
The owner of an injection molding plant isn’t gonna hang it up when they can’t sell dolls anymore, they’ll just get new molds and make something else out of the raw materials they already have familiarity with and machines they already own.
There are even consultants who specialize in helping companies pivot to producing shit that isn’t under heavy scrutiny by the public.
We’re talking about an insane hypothetical though because aside from like gun manufacturers, no one owns their own injection molding machines. They all just contract out to factories that are always running one hundred percent of the time.
It’s absurd to think that the volume of plastic going into funcos won’t immediately be diverted into something else about a week after the well dries up.
People quoting that statistic are missing the point.
Why is it that some tiny number of companies are responsible for some tremendous percentage of greenhouse gas output?
It’s because they’re operating for profit and pollution comes from the point of production.
Of course someone has to transport the funco pops to the Walmart, so it’s not all at the factories that transform fossil hydrocarbons and trees into plastic dolls in cardboard boxes, but it’s that crazy percentage.
Can’t we just stop buying pops and stop that emission? No, because the pollution comes from the place they’re made and if you were a capitalist with a funco pops factory would you close down when everyone stops buying em or just make new molds to make something else? If you bought too many jet skis and can’t afford to retool, what’s the person who buys your factory gonna do, not make plastic shit?
No, they bought a plastic molding factory. They’re gonna make hydrocarbons into shapes they can sell.
People who use that stat to justify their individual choices are missing the point, individual choices don’t matter unless the social context they’re made in allows them to be effective.
It doesn’t matter that you throw your yogurt cup in the blue bin when it just gets collected and emptied into the pacific garbage raft.
It doesn’t matter that you threw your yogurt cup on the sidewalk when the street sweeper dumps into a shred and sort facility, you know, that exists and is real (this is sarcasm).
That doesn’t mean it’s okay to not care or throw your trash on the ground or whatever, just that saving the planet isn’t the reason it’s not okay.
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Okay, so people all stop buying plastic dolls.
The owner of an injection molding plant isn’t gonna hang it up when they can’t sell dolls anymore, they’ll just get new molds and make something else out of the raw materials they already have familiarity with and machines they already own.
There are even consultants who specialize in helping companies pivot to producing shit that isn’t under heavy scrutiny by the public.
We’re talking about an insane hypothetical though because aside from like gun manufacturers, no one owns their own injection molding machines. They all just contract out to factories that are always running one hundred percent of the time.
It’s absurd to think that the volume of plastic going into funcos won’t immediately be diverted into something else about a week after the well dries up.