It's insane how some people spend an enormous amount of energy not using plastic bottles, and then take cross-Atlantic flight for the weekend.
We have to get real: use your energy to push for proper policy (carbon tax), not shaming tiny individual acts 
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I find it misplaced to ask individuals to do less of stuff when it genuinely doesn't matter. I can take a bath. It won't waste water in Cy (West Asia). It will reduce what's in our house's tank & it might be a bad idea if others want to shower, but it's not bad for the island.
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Real change comes from asking, convincing the powerful to enact regulations.
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In general, I agree that these are structural/systemic issues and need to be addressed at the level of gov’t policy. But I also believe individuals’ actions are powerful symbols both to other individuals and to corporations & gov’ts.
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I'm not seeing them working to stop climate apocalypse.
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I agree that in some cases, like water, the individual contributions are extremely inconsequential. But buying stuff used instead of new, and avoiding plastic bottles is more clearly beneficial. Likewise, you don't not vote just because you're only one among 100 million.
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The way to avoid plastic bottles IMHO is if companies are closed down except in very exceptional cases. Only a corrupt capitalist market allows profit to be made (and severe damage to nature) from something we have coming out of taps in our home (that we already pay for).
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It's also individual choices to buy them. Companies couldn't sell them if people didn't choose to buy them.
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I just don't buy it. Pun intended.
Bottled water, like smoking, had a sustained marketing campaign for years to get off the ground. And sadly you can argue plastic is worse than smoking. -
Right and I agree that regulations are a way to fix the problem. I disagree about the framing of the root cause of the problem. People are also to blame, as is the recycling movement for lulling into thinking that are plastic can all be reused.
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