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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Replying to @AnneEUrai
What's even worse is using plastic but then thinking that recycling gets you off the hook. It's increasingly likely that much/most of our "recycling" just gets dumped into the ocean.
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Replying to @bradpwyble @AnneEUrai
None of this makes a difference. That's the sad truth. The only way a single person makes a difference is if they are in charge of policy.
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Replying to @o_guest @AnneEUrai
I disagree. Our actions contribute in a small way and that gets amplified through our interactions with others. To the extent that we get to have an individual influence, it's much like voting.
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Replying to @bradpwyble @AnneEUrai
I don't buy it. For example, no amount of a single person reducing their water use can help with water consumption because it's not individuals who use it mostly; it's agriculture. Even if domestic was zero, the water would still "run out" in Cyprus where I'm from.pic.twitter.com/2vK6kWJYm7
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Replying to @o_guest @AnneEUrai
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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Replying to @bradpwyble @AnneEUrai
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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Replying to @o_guest @AnneEUrai
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.
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Replying to @o_guest @AnneEUrai
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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