Are you worried about microplastics?
Are you worried about microplastics?
I've been more and more conscious about microplastics. I was not aware that the laundry and dishwasher pods are just plastic which then goes into the water system.
What can be done to prevent microplastics?
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What can be done to prevent microplastics?
You mean, apart from dismantling capitalism?
Yes, something realistic that can be actually done.
Then the answer is a definite absolutely nothing.
You don't need to fix the entire problem to help mitigate it.
Mitigate it how, genius?
One obvious way would be to limit the amount of plastic you purchase, use, and dispose of.
So your solution is to place the burden of mitigating our ecological disasters on capitalism's victims?
Yes. Capitalism's victims far outnumber capitalism's profiteers. At the same time, by spending less money in support of harmful capitalistic practices, it disincentivizes companies from selling them as much.
We can vote with our ballots and we can vote with our dollars. Between those moments, we can consume less, reuse more, and dispose of less.
We can vote with our ballots and we can vote with our dollars.
Lol! This is your brain on liberalism, folks.
Between those moments, we can consume less, reuse more, and dispose of less.
You don't have the foggiest idea how capitalism even works, do you?
ok, so what are you doing to help?
Let me guess... the thought of joining a union has never once crossed your mind, right?
So your solution is to do nothing and give in? Yet YOU are the one insulting the commenter you’re replying to? Lay off the superiority and fatalism, and maybe you will see a path to helping.
Will we solve all the world’s problems? Not even a little bit. But does that mean we shouldn’t even try? I would argue that we should absolutely do our best to mitigate any damage caused by anyone, because we all share the same earth. Of course I would also argue we should all abstain from insulting each other, so maybe my opinion doesn’t matter.
So your solution is to do nothing and give in?
No. That's their solution. They want to "fix" the problem without upsetting the feelings of those who caused the problem - that makes any "solution" they come up with automatically a part of the problem.
Blaming plastic pollution on the working class and pretending it is their responsibility to "recycle" away the catastrophe capitalism has created has literally been the parasite's PR strategy long before most people here on Lemmy was even born.
Get this... more of the same will not solve anything.
No, my friend. You are upset and directing your anger in the wrong direction. Their solution was simply saying you can help mitigate the problem. Not that we can fix the problem without upsetting someone’s feelings. Nobody blamed the working class. Again, you are directing your anger unreasonably at those who should be your allies. You want to lay blame, but you isolate yourself from those who appear to be agreeing with you. Seems that commenter just meant that even if you can’t completely fix it, you can do a little bit. If you can do a little bit, then why wouldn’t you?
Because it won’t fix everything is not a reason to not do all that you can. You can only control yourself, so you may as well try your best.
No, my friend.
We are not friends.
Their solution was simply saying you can help mitigate the problem.
We've been "mitigating" this problem for decades now, genius.
you are directing your anger unreasonably at those who should be your allies.
No, I am directing my anger at liberals whose ideology serves no other function other than to maintain the status and power of the class of parasites that caused the problem. Liberals are most definitely not allies.