The good news is that global warming (I prefer to call it Anthropogenic Runaway Global Heating because of the acronym) is going to completely fuck us all anyway, to the extent that plastic in the environment isn't going to matter by comparison. At least oil turned into plastic and buried isn't oil turned into CO2.
this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
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But we still have microplastics in our brains, which does warrant some concern I think.
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Hey, maybe all the plastic will lead to such significant fertility issues, populations will crater, and ARGH won't even matter anymore!
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I wonder how much the oil industry subsidies are responsible for making recycled plastic more expensive than the new one...
How to get politicians to change views:
Plastic causes ed and shrinkage
They'll blame woman for being too slutty and fucking everyone BUT THEM.
Unfortunately they'll just claim not praying to god enough and the existence of trans people causes ED and shrinkage...
Thats crazy we all know trans people do the opposite for that lot.
And this is how capitalism eats itself. Nothing can be done without a market incentive, including not suffocating our planet to death.
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I really can't wrap my head around this... (https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/project-earth-frugalpac-sustainable-wine-bottles-recycled-cardboard-central-california/)
The idea has absolutely no foresight. They want to "lower the carbon footprint" by putting less carbon in the atmosphere and polluting the future's soil and water even more.
Being an old man this really gets me. I love the internet and the way computers today but there is a whole lot that worked fine before plastics were so common. Almost nothing in the grocery store had plastic and everything was pretty much as convenient as nowadays. Sure you had to pay a deposit on the glass bottles but you got it back when you returned them.
That's still the way it works in Denmark, but with plastic bottles too. Something like 98% of all bottles are recycled.
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The ~~only safe~~ safest way to dispose of plastic is to incinerate it...maybe it can replace some fossil powerplants...idk.
That's not safe either. The best is to ban it.
Hahahaha! .... oh
there have been several articles exposing plastic recycling as green washing. unfortunately they never make it to mainstream media
i saw a chart somewhere showing less than 1% of plastic in use today is recycled but I can't find it now
unfortunately they never make it to mainstream media
Sounds like this "mainstream media" is not doing its job. This might have some kinds of implications for the current state of affairs in the USA. Can't put my finger on exactly what though.
Sad that NPR is not considered "mainstream" these days. Maybe Joe Rogan will post something to Facebook about it?
NPR is definitely mainstream
I think the word you're looking for is "corporate" or "for-profit". Thats what they're not.
fwiw I agree, but it doesn't appear to be considered mainstream by the guy I was replying to.
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Was it ever? It seems substantially more popular now than it used to be 20 years ago, with them getting in on the ground floor of the podcast game and all.
If only some government somewhere on Earth had sponsored research on this. We could have known.
Or we did and no one cared.
Remember, if one depends on the media for information, you only get information dumb people can understand.