• NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.worldOP
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    12 days ago

    Then maybe introduce some incentives to make up for that 7% or else force their hand by introducing steep penalties for any plastics that are used which aren’t up to a higher standard like this… Or a little bit of both.

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      12 days ago

      We unfortunately live in a world where people get elected simply by stating that they’ll undo some progressive’s green policy legacy.

      And technology as a whole has done more to destroy than preserve. A dozen die shrinks later, where’s the promised efficiency, home computers hungrier than ever. Generative AI straining water supply. A couple apps have enough footprint and resources to make a compelling case against the traditional employee-employer contract.

      At some point people gotta start becoming skeptical of the notion that policy and technology will save the planet and that point was like 20 years ago