Thanks for sharing! Let’s also not forget our increasing awareness of global issues with amassing plastic waste and the unlikelihood that Nestle and other manufacturers will ever have to pay anything for that. Meanwhile, plastic bags from brick and mortar stores in Toronto are banned. On my former university campus, stores were forbidden to sell bottled flat water and there were fill-your-own-reusable bottle stations in many places - I thought that was a step in the right direction, considering the country we live in and how ubiquitous equal-quality water is available from our taps (as you point out) (and in most, but not all, of Canada). Personally, I’d love to see a tax on single-use plastics in such a way that the biggest polluters (ie, industry and corporations) pay the biggest share, not mom and pop shops and low-income people, etc.
Exactly. Industry always gets overlooked when drought hits and water restrictions kick in. I mean I don’t love seeing people watering their lawns in a drought (let’s not even start on golf courses etc) because I think it’s dumb, but if you look up how many millions of gallons per day industries like O&G/fracking use, it’s obscene that normal folk are shamed into conserving while they (industry) don’t even get a mention in mainstream media.
Yup. Like how if normal folks get into debt trouble, they’re on their own. Corporations on the other hand get bailouts with minimal conditions attached
Thanks for sharing! Let’s also not forget our increasing awareness of global issues with amassing plastic waste and the unlikelihood that Nestle and other manufacturers will ever have to pay anything for that. Meanwhile, plastic bags from brick and mortar stores in Toronto are banned. On my former university campus, stores were forbidden to sell bottled flat water and there were fill-your-own-reusable bottle stations in many places - I thought that was a step in the right direction, considering the country we live in and how ubiquitous equal-quality water is available from our taps (as you point out) (and in most, but not all, of Canada). Personally, I’d love to see a tax on single-use plastics in such a way that the biggest polluters (ie, industry and corporations) pay the biggest share, not mom and pop shops and low-income people, etc.
Exactly. Industry always gets overlooked when drought hits and water restrictions kick in. I mean I don’t love seeing people watering their lawns in a drought (let’s not even start on golf courses etc) because I think it’s dumb, but if you look up how many millions of gallons per day industries like O&G/fracking use, it’s obscene that normal folk are shamed into conserving while they (industry) don’t even get a mention in mainstream media.
Yup. Like how if normal folks get into debt trouble, they’re on their own. Corporations on the other hand get bailouts with minimal conditions attached