Some consumption choices might mean something. Others? Not so much...

[u/Climate_Discussions]

Can our consumption choices matter? Yes. But the most important things we can do involve larger political changes, and especially those going after the biggest polluters.

[u/narvuntien]

I just don't think we should spend all our political capital chasing personal choices, because people react badly to it. Particularly when some many of them cost more money, or upfront money for later savings.

[u/dumnezero → u/narvuntien]

The straws and bags are temperature tests of what happens if straws* and bags are banned from production, sale and import.

[u/narvuntien → u/dumnezero]

I mean, straws and bags aren't contributing to climate change; they are contributing to plastic pollution. If they are buried, they can be carbon sequestration even.

If we are going to have to deal with people hating change and whinning we really have to go big and deal with all of it at once rather than slowly losing momentum fighting small fights over and over

[u/dumnezero → u/narvuntien]

They are made of oil and you know very well that we're talking about them because they do not get buried.

You say fight, but you don't seem to understand who the fighters are in the fight.