• girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    If gov’ts had kept on top of the companies and created prohibitive rules around single-use plastics (and chemical use … see PFOS/PFAS) in the 70’s, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

    Instead they just let companies do whatever they wanted 'cause capitalism is god.

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      10 months ago

      And now it’s so far gone that doing the bare minimum for the environment is great for their image so let’s dump more money into advertising that than actually making a meaningful change.