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'Plan in advance': Eclipse glasses are hot sellers ahead of rare celestial event
(www.thecanadianpressnews.ca)
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2024
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Yay, more disposable crap to make you feel something for 60seconds. Gotta love humanity...
It's crap like this why I'm starting to not give two shits about this planet or climate change. Keep producing and keep consuming folks...everything will just fix itself.
Oh fuck off with the mindless cynicism.
The amount of plastic used in those glasses, which is only in the lenses as the rest is card paper, is a fraction of what's in typical disposable consumer goods. I guarantee you've already thrown out more plastic in the last week than is in a whole ten pack of those glasses.
Meanwhile, events like this are a great way to remind people of the natural world we live in and how miniscule our experience of it is relative to the enormity of even just our solar system.
Also you don't have to get rid of them? Save them for next time.
If you don't want to hold on to them, donate them to a local astronomy org
Absolutely. I have over a dozen pairs, both from the 2017 eclipse and the annular last fall, and you can bet I'll be reusing some while giving away the rest.