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forcing people to spend time responding to this shit while they complete their 100% takeover of any remaining entity in a position to do anything about it
https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/cognitive-overload
Reactions to cognitive overload You may respond to cognitive overload in different ways based on external factors and internal behaviors, including:
Paralysis Being unable to deal with a topic or issue because it's more complex than you're able to manage. Anger If information doesn't fit with the way you think or feel, you may become angry at having your feelings or beliefs challenged. Repeated attempts to address a topic may lead to feelings of upset or anxiousness. Passivity Simply going along with others is a way of dealing with cognitive overload. Forming an opinion on a topic may feel overwhelming, while following someone else's lead is the easiest way to cope.This fight, especially, is one that we should just let them win.
80% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is fishing waste. Banning plastic straws is pointless, what we need to be doing is forcing the fishing industry to clean up their shit.
My fuckin zucchini is wrapped in plastic.
My bananas have a plastic ribbon around them.
I buy these PLASTIC smoke filters to exhale bong smoke through, so it doesn’t stink up my place as badly. They come in PLASTIC packaging, which is the WRAPPED IN PLASTIC, and the PUT IN A PLASTIC BAG.*
There’s SO many places to fight plastic that make so much more sense.
Straws isn’t it, fam. Plastic straws are the tits. Paper straws suck butts.
McDonald’s in my area went from paper cups and plastic straws to plastic cups and paper straws. Huge L.
I am a leftie nature lover, in full support of plastic straws. Let’s decimate the plastic industry, and keep straws, 3d printing materials, lawn furniture, medical supplies, and infrastructure. Deal?
Any amount of progress is good.
In a vacuum yes, but the political and practical cost of this progress is too high. Our efforts would be better focused elsewhere.
Not sure how much “effort” it takes to make plastic straws illegal. No one needs straws to survive. You could just drink out of the cup.
First off, it takes effort to make anything illegal. Campaigning and lobbying are hard and costly work. Second, our “efforts” comprise not only the work put in, but also the cost of the results.
Plastic straws are poor choice of target. They’re a highly visible point of friction to the average voter that can be used to easily sour them against progressive climate action in general, switching away from them creates disability accommodation issues, and the net benefit to the planet is tiny. Reducing plastic packaging or targeting fishing waste (as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, 80% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is fishing waste) would have far more of an impact, at far less of a cost to public support for our cause.
Ultimately the focus on plastic bags and straws is a huge benefit to the biggest polluters, because it keeps attention away from them.
Have you tried to give a toddler a paper straw? They last like half a juice box. Subjecting adults to paper straws I can live with, but my god someone think of the children [sic parents]
Reusable straws exist. Biodegradable straws exist. Sippy cups exist. Teaching a child to drink from a cup exists.