Starbucks' virtue-signaling death spiral continues: this time, it's pushing a pointless ban on plastic drinking straws. https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/12/starbucks-straw-ban-will-see-the-company …
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Do you think its better or worse ecologically to replace the straw with the new lid? If you think its the same, you're wrong. If you think its worse, why? If you think its better...then you're arguing against an improvement because it is also attached to a feel-good exercise.
It's a meaningless distraction from real issues, such as the urgent need for nuclear power to reduce carbon emissions, and for geoengineering strategies to ameliorate global warming. Plastic straws won't make a blind bit of difference either way, and you know it.
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