• Steve@communick.news
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    2 months ago

    Which isn’t the individual single use plastic bags every single item comes in.
    It’s just the one final plastic bag, all the other plastic bags are carried in.

    I don’t have a problem with the move myself. I’m single, with a supermarket just up the street. I use my own hand basket for my groceries. I never even use a cart.
    But this policy always strikes me a tackling the smallest, least effective part of the problem. Banning plastic packaging would be FAR more effective. But also much harder. So this is just a way for politicians to seem like they are doing something, when they really aren’t. In other words it’s pandering.

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        2 months ago

        I’m saying it shouldn’t be praised as a solution, but recognized as a very small step forward. Afterwhich we ramp up the pressure for real solutions.

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          No, no, they’ve expended their political capital on this and that’s about all we’ll get from them, but just as long as someone tells you to not let perfect be the enemy of good, you must be satisfied with the outcome even if it achieves little to nothing.

          Arguing against it or pointing out flaws means that you’re now arguing against “what’s good” and that’s morally and ethically wrong and shows that you’re an outsider to the in-group.

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      Banning these plastics is not about environmentalism. It’s about litter and having visually cleaner cities.

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        2 months ago

        It seems easy to argue liter is part of environmental concerns and policy. Environment is a very flexible term.

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      We can’t afford to think like this. Climate is such an unthinkably massive issue that we need all of it, and then some more, and then some more.

      There is no project big enough that we don’t need 50,000 more projects of equivalent scope to get things where they need to be.

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        Think like what? Think this is just one small pice. Small enough that it almost doesn’t matter, and shouldn’t take any energy or news inches from the larger problem of plastic packaging? Because honestly, it sounds like we’re on the same page there.

        Also plastics aren’t much of a climate issue. They’re part of a more broad environmental issue.