What's the big deal about plastics/synthetics, and how could I be adding to the problem?
All Earth's passengers and crew: please have your plastic-free items on hand; reusable bags, utensils, and container(s) on you when shopping or eating out/in. -Earth's biosphere
Plastic is made of burred fossil oils(!beneath the biosphere!) and the oil industry sells it to everyone for everything like it's liquid gold about to be out-lawed, but the truth is they have been unethically falsely dis-crediting righteous scientists, suppressing voters/leaders, and bribing or becoming the legislators to prevent the ban on fossil oil, even though it negatively effects EVERYONE's long term health, including their own! They don't care or they are the only ones avoiding and detoxing it. they do it by bribing, silencing, controlling 'the narrative', and coming up with believable(via emotional manipulation) excuses to keep using it wherever they can. For example, straw makers may narrate shame on environmentalists for not thinking of some disabled people who may actually need straws to drink with. Our guess is those individuals likely carry their own reusable straws already!... Obviously pollution is a legislative issue but on an individual level, As we allow short term convenience and "affordability" take precedence over our biosphere's long term health and the viability of bio-nature, wild consciousness, and even educated society. is simply reckless and a harmful science experiment to our thin biosphere! So...*eyes on you*... You have the right to speak out and vote against corporation's recklessness in their production harmful materials. Taking the easy path is, more often than not, too good to be true and conveniently enough, for extreme-exploiters of capitalism, plastic-lobbyers narrate the headlines, the focus, even when the facts don't support it, like fabricating a victim's story, using adverse personal & political shaming "tools" or calling it social inequality to not allow the convivence(excessive freedom) to have the plastic product of choice, like straws and disability as opposed to acknowledging the pollutions left behind by the plastics and the future disabilities and infertility caused by plastics. It's the oil-industry's game to keep selling plastics and other products made of cheap reckless science experiments. and you can bet they'll over-use the idea of a need for sanitation and convenience/access too. But as you may have learned, as a child, if you were lucky enough to have been taught by a functional school/parent, that too much sanitation is bad for our immune health, not putting your immune systems in practice and then being exposed to germs/viruses is more dangerous because the immune system is inadequately adapted and dependant on synthetic protective products that aren't passed down to the next generation, leading to dependence on unnatural lifestyles.