Plastic producers have known for more than 30 years that recycling is not an economically or technically feasible plastic waste management solution. That has not stopped them from promoting it, according to a new report.

“The companies lied,” said Richard Wiles, president of fossil-fuel accountability advocacy group the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI), which published the report. “It’s time to hold them accountable for the damage they’ve caused.”

  • Cosmic Cleric
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    9 months ago

    Liberals think they can create radical change in the capitalist system through voting and reforms,

    You know, talking to your local house representative isn’t a “liberal” thing to do, it’s an American citizenry thing to do.

    And I guarantee you, if enough of us did that, on a regular basis, so that those Representatives are fearful for their positions if they go against the will of their constituents, you would see actual change happen.

    You won’t see change if we just complain about things on an Internet forum.

    By the way, that Cambridge paper you quoted, is from 2014. Politics has changed since then. And, that paper doesn’t discuss at all about the issue of the citizenry being inactive and not forcing their will onto those they elect. It also mentions where citizenry through special interest groups like labor unions can affect change.

      • Cosmic Cleric
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        09 months ago

        Even Marxists who live in a democratic country could potentially benefit from speaking to their local elected representative. Beats waiting around for a revolution that will never come.

        • @TokenBoomer
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          09 months ago

          I’m old. I’ve written. Emailed. Called, and voted my entire life. The political landscape is not getting better. It’s getting worse.

          • Cosmic Cleric
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            19 months ago

            ’m old. I’ve written. Emailed. Called, and voted my entire life. The political landscape is not getting better. It’s getting worse.

            At least you can look at yourself in the mirror; you tried. The only thing any of us could be asked to do. Don’t let cynicism ruin you.

            • @TokenBoomer
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              09 months ago

              You seem to be a cruel optimist.

              A relation of cruel optimism is a double-bind in which your attachment to an object sustains you in life at the same time as that object is actually a threat to your flourishing. So you can’t say that there are objects that have the quality of cruelty or not cruelty, it’s how you have the relationship to them.

                • @TokenBoomer
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                  19 months ago

                  Not really. If you go deeper, you’ll find that everyone is immoral.

                  If it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything morally significant, we ought, morally, to do it.

                  • Cosmic Cleric
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                    19 months ago

                    Not really. If you go deeper, you’ll find that everyone is immoral.

                    I mean, we’re straying far from the original conversation, so I’ll just leave it with agree to disagree, and move on.

                    Take care.