Popular environmentalism (e.g. banning plastic straws) is like the way inexperienced programmers optimize code at random, without profiling first.
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Can you link to the original study? I've spent 10 mins looking, and can't find it. Thanks.
Okay, so I found what I presume is the press release, which is very good as press releases go (but also a long way short of a paper): http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-18-3909_en.htm … It doesn't state how much straws contribute, unfortunately, though they're on the (long) list of top contributorspic.twitter.com/nNH7Dz8ilN
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Here's what the press release identifies as the worst contributors, together w strategies for each. Not as good as really effective profiling for program optimization, but much better than scattershot "let's fix whatever we can". It'd be nice to better understand methodologypic.twitter.com/3PRhQiIhuG
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Put another way: straw bans _may_ sometimes be part of a reasonably well thought out overall approach. That fact is not visible in common ways of marketing such bans (which are moronic), but may be true at the policy source. This is surprisingly common in government.
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