gosh i wonder how many of the tens of thousands of people boosting this thread will stop and say "hmm maybe no" the next time policy is being made based on a wokeness performance cascade arising from media amplification of narcissistic bullshithttps://twitter.com/EhlersDanlosgrl/status/1139214876553834496 …
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at first I hated the plastic bag tax (we've had it here for years) but then I realized how much better my reusable bags are so...
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nitpick: the "fossil fuel subsidies" claim rolls in "not levying the Pigouvian taxes our model claims is optimal" as "subsidies" to get those $100B or whatever numbers IMO this is ~completely invalid, bc "subsidies" in popular parlance means actual cash payment, which this isn't
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ty ty, it seemed like the kind of thing there'd be jiggery-pokery lurking in but fucked if i was going to go digging for it relationship of this to the exact phenomena i'm whingeing about is left as an exercise for the interested student
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honestly, I think people just don't realize the scale of cataecological processes underway. Like, this whole straw bullshit, it doesn't matter. We either tech our way out of this or die trying. There simply is no, and can not be, behavioral / social solution.
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Like, people who can't be assed to use fucking turn signals (which is probably lowest-effort positive sum act in this solar system) think they can behave their way out of a likely unprecedented ecological deterioration. LMFAO.
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I hope you take some consolation in knowing that plastic bag thing only hurts those to whom small amounts of money matter, and since they have no health care anyway, they'll all be dead soon.
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Even better, people buy thicker plastic bags from the grocery store to use in their garbage bins, producing paper bags creates more greenhouse gases due to transporting and processing the wood, and reusable bags must be reused 130 times before breakeven.https://www.npr.org/2019/05/23/726035361/why-banning-plastic-grocery-bags-could-be-a-bad-move …
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Carbon dioxide from cars and they try to ban straws.
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