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uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days agoOnly on the presumption that we didn’t detect it and aim for solutions sooner (e.g. invent circular recycling of plastics, replace major causes of microplastics with degradeable alternatives, say, vulcanized rubber with rubber and mushrooms).
Also the society’s response in this late hour would probably be more effective than a disinformation campaign and a shrug.
optissima@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
I think it’s safe to assume that if we had stronger regulations, some of which were first implemented 1980, we’d be looking at significantly less than now.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Agreed, but 1980 was the beginning of the Reagan-Bush era and massive environmental deregulation, which only got worse through Clinton and George W. Bush.
The great conservative movement killed conservation.
optissima@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Your phrasing seems to indicate that you’re refuting my point when it strengthens it? Yeah if we had followed the Republican bare minimum instead of letting the bottom drop out it’d already be significantly less of an issue.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
They literally started the comment out with the word “agreed” lol