> I agree. This seems like they treating symptoms of the problem than the actual cause.
How do you agree with something when you don't even take 2 minutes to read a bit more, especially about what you're complaining about? They're not only trying to pick up plastics in the ocean, but also stop plastic from going from the rivers that flow into the oceans, and preventing plastic from entering the rivers in the first place.
Oh, yeah, it's so out of reach to force companies (entities made by and comprising of humans) to not use a packaging that destroys the earth (the place where humans live).
- There is the financial solution: taxing the hell out of plastic packaging.
- There is the policy solution: simply not allowing plastic products.
- There is the consumer solution: people refusing to buy plastic crap.
- There is the R&D solution: producing better packaging (biodegradable, non-toxic etc)
- There is the waste disposal solution: making sure plastic is properly separated and recycled/upcycled/disposed of.
This is not a problem that's out of reach, it's a problem of human greed, wrong incentives, no political will, and general population apathy. But yeah, when babies start being born en massse with disabilities and grown ups start dying due to microplastics accumulation in soft tissues, the apathy will turn to anger, and suddenly political will will be there!
But for now, all we have is relying on a Dutch guy's startup to clean our rivers and oceans cause we simply.gotta.drink.from.a.plastic.bottle. \s.
diggan|1 year ago
How do you agree with something when you don't even take 2 minutes to read a bit more, especially about what you're complaining about? They're not only trying to pick up plastics in the ocean, but also stop plastic from going from the rivers that flow into the oceans, and preventing plastic from entering the rivers in the first place.
dartos|1 year ago
_Algernon_|1 year ago
ath3nd|1 year ago
- There is the financial solution: taxing the hell out of plastic packaging.
- There is the policy solution: simply not allowing plastic products.
- There is the consumer solution: people refusing to buy plastic crap.
- There is the R&D solution: producing better packaging (biodegradable, non-toxic etc)
- There is the waste disposal solution: making sure plastic is properly separated and recycled/upcycled/disposed of.
This is not a problem that's out of reach, it's a problem of human greed, wrong incentives, no political will, and general population apathy. But yeah, when babies start being born en massse with disabilities and grown ups start dying due to microplastics accumulation in soft tissues, the apathy will turn to anger, and suddenly political will will be there!
But for now, all we have is relying on a Dutch guy's startup to clean our rivers and oceans cause we simply.gotta.drink.from.a.plastic.bottle. \s.