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There's 2 sides to every coin. Consumers were lied to, yes, but consumers also choose to buy plastic over glass. But that's not my problem with the comic. My problem is that it's the posterchild of "nothing I do matters anyway, so might as well not care and pollute". It also feels very much like a sarcastic excuse to people who tell others to clean up after themselves.
Yes, but it can better than nothing. Shipping it off to a third-world country (which I think the EU finally banned) and then pointing at the country and saying "look, they don't recycle, it's not our fault" harms us all of course. Anyway, the comic rubs me the wrong way.
Consumers didn't price the glass higher than the plastic. Companies and lack of regulations did that.
Consoomers aren't to blame. Why? Because I'm a consoomer myself and I know I'm not to blame. Not even partially. I am completely absolved from any blame because I'm a consoomer. Where does it say so? I say so. I will consoom for the economy and that's how I participate in society.
I buy plastic bottles because I'm powerless. I buy big tech products because I'm powerless to their advertising. I buy non-fairtrade products because, you guessed it, powerless. I leave the tap on while brushing my teeth because industry uses millions of litres more than I ever could making products for me to consoom. I am powerless! I can consoom anything I like, whenever I like, however I like, because I'm a weak pawn with no independence.
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Nice strawman. You wanna set it on fire, or try using it on someone that it applies to?