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    3 years ago

    this is a false dichotomy, of course many problems have to be fixed on the supply side, but a lot have to also be fixed on the consumer side, for example animal product consumption: no matter how you restructure corporations, earth simply doesn’t have enough resources in order sustain an omnivore diet for more than a few hundred million people

    the 100 - 70 gotcha points out a valid problem, while also for some reason disregarding the other side of that problem 🤷‍♀️

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      3 years ago

      Consumers wouldn’t be using single use plastics if corporations didn’t push it on everyone.

      How about stuff like milk cartons that added a plastic cap to the cardboard? It always worked fine opening the cardboard top and I would always use it up long before it spoiled. The plastic added nothing to the shelf life and just created more waste. Now every carton like that has a plastic cap.

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        3 years ago

        i agree, you listed problems that should be fixed on the supply side, this doesn’t mean there aren’t problems that should be fixed on the consumer side 🤷‍♀️

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            consumers can’t recycle plastics, nobody can, there are problems that cannot be fixed on the supply side, and single use plastics isn’t one of them