• FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Pretty idiotic and clickbaity unit of measurement there. How many globe circling bottles of water are in something like, say, Lake Superior? A stream of water 5 water bottles wide circling the earth doesn’t really sound like a lot of water when you look at how much is in the oceans. I am in no means defending bottled water, but geez these stupid metrics used to stir up people are getting tiresome.

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      1 year ago

      We need a better measurement, like footballs and Olympic sized swimming pools. Then I would really understand the scope of the problem.

  • qooqie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Anecdotal, but I generally only see old people buy bottled water. Also people who see bottled water as a status symbol buy it of course lmfao but I think that’s not nearly as common