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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I agree with all of your points, but the original picture was showing plastic pollution and you went on to compare it with carbon emissions. So when you use a phrase like "total footprint" it's difficult to interpret that any other way than we must make one problem worse to solve the other.

I don't see why we can't have solutions that are low/zero carbon AND don't result in plastic being dumped in the ocean.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Is the goal to reduce plastic, or is the goal to live as long and sustainably as possible on the only known rock that can support human life?

But I see it as two sides of the same coin. Plastic or glass, we're not getting at the core problem, which is long distance, packaging intensive transportation of goods. Plastic is bad because it becomes trash, and eventually a pollutant. Glass may have less pollution in the product, but more pollution in the distribution.