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"Multiple studies report startlingly high percentages of motorists worldwide who literally drive out of their way to crush animals as they try to cross."https://t.co/sOxA9JjUf7
Going out of your way to crush animals on the road seems like the kind of behavior that happens when you get a lot of vindictive people going "take that vegan hippy peta scum" as retaliation for mass scale shaming and cultural attacks.Woopshttps://t.co/tkoSDCWHVQ
I wonder how many barrels of oil are dumped in streams and waterways out of a complete disregard to our future, but largely motivated by jealousy and envy leading to 'payback' against a perceived outgroup, generated in people's minds due to large scale shame.
Here's an article from https://t.co/5qoppxqLMY using the recycling crisis to sell a narrative against local laws for recycling and arguing it ought to be an economic driven one.https://t.co/0ayUCOROQE
The funny thing is, as far as I can tell, the entire motivation for those laws as an economic incentive: to force people to put recycling out to curb so recycling centers could sell it to china to make products. Unintended consequences all the way down.https://t.co/64APmKXu5C
The idea is that: by turning plastics into something people value, and providing low cost entry points for small business initiatives, we can leverage economic forces to fix the plastic glut our current systems seem to be creating.We've made a mess.https://t.co/9KJDzKdb4B
I think a lot about how the 'rolling coal' thing was meme'd into existence. Been seeing more and more trucks pumping black clouds into the air around here... in Vermont. Makes me sad.https://t.co/RwUkOZJw73
"We're recycling wrong, so companies are trying ot make it easier"This is driven by how china won't accept low grade recycling anymore and this is just economic forces playing out? This reads like Bootlicking and shaming people for using zero-sort.https://t.co/wW8pnlM1xl
We're all just pawns of large scale recycling ideology?"Now much of that trash is flowing to Southeast Asian countries. Once there, unrecyclable imports often end up abandoned in nature or burned illegally, which releases toxic chemicals into the air"https://t.co/LhUEvEYQfO
Everybody hates it when large corporations use robots to take jobs away, except when its for recycling, it seems.https://t.co/tcuZ8ktXD5https://t.co/Nbt7bAVoOu
Waste management is a fascinating boys club. But nobody seems to care."So why aren’t there more women in waste? The short answer is that women aren’t choosing it as a career, but that raises the obvious follow-up question: why not?"https://t.co/j6P506DUcx
We care about where we put the trash. But not really about who puts it there, or why our systems to move it around work the way they do. https://t.co/HBahu8MxSs
It seems this issue, of "where the trash goes" is a NIMBY issue since before I was born.https://t.co/IVgonLtQWT
But the scope of waste management flows is much larger than that of western countries. Trash doesn't disappear when you get outside of your country's boundaries. We have a myopic view here in America.https://t.co/mNS1v672tJ https://t.co/gwxPPyRmFI
Why does this happen? This reeks of politics.https://t.co/ojXNoPxUKg