Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that’s really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

  • bomberesque1@lemm.ee
    92·
    1 year ago

    We need oil gas and plastics. Oil and gas in the short/ medium term (meaning 10-20 years) but plastics potentially for the foreseeable

    we have alternative energy sources and so oil and gas should be (needs to be) the priority to wean off of but the scaling up of these needs to be properly managed

    Plastics I do not see an alternative to as an end product, however it is possible to use “bio sources” to make plastic precursors so there’s a route through there but the scaling is nowhere right now

    Single use plastics are a viable target but durable plastics I think are with us for the long term

    • spuncertv@iusearchlinux.fyi
      3·
      1 year ago

      I just want there to be some sense in the regulations. I’m from the US so that’s rare, but banning plastic straws seems pretty silly when almost every product at the store is packaged in giant clamshell packaging that turn into razor blades when you open them. Paper and cardboard packaging should be required for most products.

      What products do we use durable plastics for, and are there reasonable alternatives?

      • phillaholic@lemm.ee
        21·
        1 year ago

        As far as I can tell the straw ban really gained steam after that Sea Turtle Video of someone pulling a straw out of it’s nose. They are dangerous to wildlife all over, and aren’t necessary. Didn’t Starbucks create some sort of sip top?

      • bomberesque1@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        Some examples: Parts of your chosen form of transport, a decent portion of your mobile phone/laptop/pc, bits of your shoes. The guttering on your home. The lining of your fridge

        If you make a special effort to look for it, you’ll find durable plastics all around you. Perhaps their ubiquity makes them disappear a bit

        Ofc plastics can be made from sources other than petrochem and that needs to be pushed in the same way as alternative energy, but none are decently scaled yet