• krolden
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    92 years ago

    How can we ever hope to tix this? On top of all the other shitty things going on in the world, this is the thing that really removes all hope for humanity (and life on this planet) from my mind. Like a crushing fuck you to all organic life, it just makes me want to completely drop out of society. Who the fuck can stand working 40 hours a week for some shitty company if they know they’re inhaling plastic dust wherever they go?

    Meanwhile they’re making more single use plastics than ever. No real push to replace it with something biodegradable by any world power. Its not even like that would fix the problem, just barely slowing new accumulation of microplastics but that will never be enough to save us.

    I talk about this to people and they either call me a cynical asshole for making then feel bad, or they just don’t care. No wonder the billionaires are building rockets.

    • @Gmork
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      2 years ago

      My sentiments exactly!

      I fear all we can really do is try to educate people and hope they change their ways. Unfortunately this is not realistic from what I have seen. I talked about it constantly and I’ve had absolutely zero success.

      Now many of my family members start to buy or use something plastic when a perfectly good alternative is available to them. They look over at me and say ‘I hope this doesn’t make you mad…’

      They are literally more concerned with what I think rather than the seemingly unavoidable outcome of their plastic addiction.

      • @yxzi
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        2 years ago

        Same here. I keep telling everyone it’s not about me personally, but about the issues I’m concerned about. There’s still hope though, giving up is not an option