Just doing my part 🤡

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• mochisuki@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also fuck bamboo straws and other paper straws filled with PFAS. just use a normal straw or none at all

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• SpiceDealer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s something about having a lot of money that makes you hate mother nature. It’s weird.

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  • Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Feels like to them, mother nature and environment is a hindrance to their convenience

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• madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know if all these recent jet memes are people just joking around or are you people actually convinced private jets are the problem?

  Taylor swift, and every single billionaire alive could be flying 24/7/365 OR NOT and it would make absolutely no difference to fighting climate change.

  The main polluters are industry and farming.

  All this other shit around are just distractions keeping you from actually going after the people that are causing our crisis.

  I don’t know if it’s astroturfing or what, but it seems like it’s deliberate manipulation to keep people inactive.

  You memeing on Tylor or using wood straws, or recycling your soda can does fuck all. A single paper plant will dump out so much co2 and pollution that will negate the effort of millions.

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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, none of that matters anyways when China now emits almost twice as much CO2 as the US and is basically single-handedly not just absorbing all the rest of the world’s reduction efforts, but increasing the global output enormously.

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    • Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Double the emissions for 4 times the people? Damn that’s pretty efficient in comparison.

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  • DingoBilly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A lot of it is political at end of day.

    Taylor Swift is looking to be a supporter of the Democratic Party in US, so the Republicans are running targeted attacks on her to reduce credibility. I

    t’s nothing new but just be aware that people posting these memes may just be bots/paid marketers essentially.

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• FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yep. I’m all for limiting waste, but we never should’ve gotten rid of plastic straws. Paper straws DO NOT WORK. It’s as simple as that.

  I’ve resorted to carrying my own straws these days, just so I don’t have to use soggy paper.

  And frankly, I doubt getting rid of plastic straws had any effect anyway. They claimed here it was to protect sea turtles. I live four hours from the ocean. Unless a sea turtle knows how to use public transport, they’re not likely to get near my straw. Especially since I actually put it in the recycling bin anyway.

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  • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you living on a dumpster or really that naive, that you think your waste is staying where you leave it?

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    • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, all I can reasonably do is put it in the correct bin for proper recycling, as they tell you to do. I would never litter; it’s antisocial as fuck.

      Once it’s collected, I have zero control over it. I assume Dutch garbage companies don’t dump my trash in the ocean, but I honestly haven’t bothered to check if they export it to somewhere else or anything like that.

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  • Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Paper straws work fine?

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    • Binzy_Boi@supermeter.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not to be the "well akshually" guy, but I personally find that paper straws are fine for most drinks, when it comes to thicker ones they really suck (no pun intended). Like, using a paper straw with a slurpee or milkshake is a nightmare.

      I'm team paper straws, but surely there's a better solution for drinks like those.

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  • Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Downside is, your plastic trash probably isn’t staying near where you live.

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    • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, all I can reasonably do is put it in the correct bin for proper recycling, as they tell you to do. I would never litter; it’s antisocial as fuck.

      Once it’s collected, I have zero control over it. I assume Dutch garbage companies don’t dump my trash in the ocean, but I honestly haven’t bothered to check if they export it to somewhere else or anything like that.

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  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just be a grown up like me and always have a handy Red Vine ^tm^ to use as a straw.

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    • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They don’t sell those here, unfortunately :D

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  • qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They should offer reusable metal straws

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’d just get stolen and you know it.

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• lawrence@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s the equivalent of a lot of straws.

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