To do your climate action good deed for the day, please find a friendly neighborhood hippie and show them this chart in a spirit of gentle, non-confrontational, empathetic bullshit-calling
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The larger issue is that the bags break down into small fragments and find their way into our and marine food systems. How one can quantify the impact of that is beyond my limited skills.
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It's an important consideration but not a "larger issue" I'd say. I think it's easy to quantify (you just do systematic testing of water samples) and intervention upstream of the waste flow doesn't seem that hard. But the bs I wanted to flag relates to carbon impact myths.
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I meant that the impact on health won't be known for a while and hence costs will be impossible to quantify for some time. The carbon footprint of plastic grocery bags was never a big issue - at least in NZ and India.
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Yeah, that's going to be a tricky one. Some connections already traced to hormone disruption effects, falling sperm counts etc.
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the waste flow is global


