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Pandora_Palen t1_jaqgc77 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Scotland first to ban environmentally harmful anaesthetic by VORTXS

Come on and what? Switching to an equally effective and far less destructive option is ...? What's your problem here?

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JeffFromSchool t1_jar5ifx wrote

Idk what they said other than "Come on", but I can only imagine they are skeptical as to how harmful it actually is. After all, I never expected my anesthetics to be biodegradable.

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Pandora_Palen t1_jatqba8 wrote

No, it was something along the lines "so we're using plants now? C'mon people!"

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Icy_Illustrator_7613 t1_jasx2s2 wrote

I assume they mean that the overall impact of desflurane is rather negligible in the grand scheme of carbon emissions. Hard to imagine banning desflurane in Scotland will have much impact

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Pandora_Palen t1_jatsjjb wrote

That makes absolutely no difference. How do you eat a whale? One bite at a time. Every time there is a reduction, it's a win. All the millions of times the "it's not a big deal and everybody does it" mentality added up and created this global mess. Now it's time to start using that same mentality to subtract, bit by bit. It won't stop with Scotland.

And I don't know what they meant. They said something stupid about "now we're going to start using plants?"

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