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mr_doppertunity t1_iy391vu wrote

Reply to comment by NYR_LFC in Abu Dhabi reduces number of single-use plastic bags by half a million per day by ge1o2

What about the war in Ukraine, ISIS, and starving African children who suffer from malaria? As a humanity, we absolutely can’t tackle multiple issues at once, so let’s sort them from the most severe to less severe first, then solve one by one. Up until then me and my friends will collect fishnets that billionaires drop from their private jets onto the nearest park and forest. And plastic bags.

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NYR_LFC t1_iy3bjvv wrote

Uh this post is specifically about pollution. What are you on about?

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Creepy_Tooth t1_iy3lbgr wrote

In case you hadn’t realised, they are mocking your argument where you expanded the scope of the article to encompass unrelated societal ills.

I agree with them.

“Don’t let perfection be the enemy of progress”

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mr_doppertunity t1_iy3yrta wrote

The other user explained it. Chinese pollution is bad, mmmkay, but it doesn’t mean we can litter everywhere until it’s resolved. Or that we shouldn’t solve our local environmental problems. I currently live in a place with AQI 200 at certain hours of the day, people here couldn’t care less about the Chinese and their pollution, let alone fishnets as it’s pretty damn far from the sea.

From my side, I can confirm there’s no fishnets in the forest. No, sir. There are plastic bags though. I’m sure billionaires with their private jets didn’t drop them, it’s ordinary people which got a free plastic bag who do it. However, they kinda lack incentive to get a reusable bag that would last years. I personally use a cloth bag, yet the cashiers still ask if I need a plastic one.

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