yeah, and there was a recent expose about how, on top of the fact that most plastic recycling doesn't actually reduce overall pollution all that much, a huge amount of state and municipal recycling programs had been subsumed by some massive scam that just offloaded recycling waste to some 3rd-party program that eventually buried it all in landfills or dumped it somewhere anyway.

the real answer is to stop producing/consuming so much waste (especially petrochemical-based waste) in the first place and to live in more sustainable and less waste-producing systems.

Oh good allegory would be: stop taking all of those cholesterol and blood pressure medication’s, and just eat healthier and exercise more.

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Thankfully my country has a deposit system for cans and bottles (except for strong alcoholic drinks for some reason. Beer has deposit, wine, vodka etc do not)

Most cans get recycled. There's even hobos looking in communal garbage bins for recyclable containers because although there's not a lot of money in it, it gets them what food banks don't.

I think most of Europe does this but in the rest of the world I'm not sure how much gets recycled or not

I suggest that you try the coffee and the Popsicles separately next time.

Also, not so great for Popsicles. Better for beverages, generally speaking.

Reduce, Reuse, and recycle what is left when possible. But avoid, whenever possible, non-reusable containers in the first place, thereby reducing your overall footprint.

Just avoid like the plague brands that sponsor World Cups.

IronFlask, the brand I recommended, is not a sponsor of the World Cup.

I don’t watch sports.

Klean Kanteen’s been another classic stainless option, for decades! https://kleankanteen.com/

Another point is that there are many areas where existing recycling and other environmentally friendly approaches can be greatly improved. For instance, the infinitely recyclable aluminum beverage cans are only recycled at around 43% in the US. Despite any wasteful practices by the ultra-wealthy, this is an area where everyone still must be diligent.

Yeah, we could have a world in which we have ultra rich billionaires individually wasting that of a small nation on the regular and no one doing anything to try to offset it. I 100% get the defeatism, but it really does no one any good.

Always downvote whenever I see it.

Glad there's... 12 of us :|

When you eat the rich, consider using an eco-friendly fuel

Spamraam

How do you think all the commits get reviewed? He's got to pick them up!

Yeah, I don't think the guy linked is famous enough to not have the "YouTuber" qualifier.

Everything Linus buys seems like an ego purchase.

It's basic girl math.

i glance several thumbnails of his former employees that basically complained about him, although some of them thought they were getting ahead in thier industry/field by working for him.

This sentence is wild.

i felt the controversy last year or the year before, made him even more money. he was definitely panicking after that happened.

People on youtube defend him for it.

There is not, at least in german. But german offers us the possibility of making one. I´ll use the Zangendeutsch for douche, "Dusche", then "Verdacht" for the suspicion, "Bestätigung" for its revelation as true and "Moment" which is german for, well, moment. Put in some suffixes (-en and -s) for grammatical reasons et voila: Duschenverdachtsbestätigungsmoment, a brand new german word meaning "the moment of the confirmation of the suspicion of the douche".

LTT has always been a techbro, surrounded by other techbros.

Achtually, a gas-powered car isn't that far from an airplane in terms of CO2 emission per kilometer per person. But planes allow for long distance travels that you would never consider doing by car. It also depends how many people are in the car. Planes also produce more non-CO2 pollutants.
If you were to choose between driving X km alone in your car or take a plane to the same destination, both options' environmental impact would be quite close. But with carpooling, the car rapidly becomes a less bad option.

or to get coffee,or lunch, or fly thier pets.

Yes, go for it. They have huge resources they can spend on security and the state will protects them with everything they have but I'm sure you, ordinary citizen, can "hurt" them. And once they are "hurt" they will voluntarily relinquish their wealth and power and start working with you to stop climate change. I'm sure of it.

The cannister leaked

The old ad slogan was "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" in that order because that's the best order to try for. If you don't need it, don't get it. If you do need it, try to use it multiple times. If you can't use it again, then try to recycle it. But the absolute best thing you can do is not get the thing initially.

Only a small percent ends up recycled and there's some plastics that it's cost prohibitive to recycle. Aluminum cans is another one I try not to introduce into my life as well. They have better margins for recycling but it's easier than plastic to not include into your purchase.

And that's just the packaging part!

Also there are significantly less rich people

I agree that works for stuff like 'don't litter'. But recycling at scale is literally impossible and they knew this when they pushed plastics on us.

Why are that fewer flights?

I shall relook into those bags I forget every time I go to the shops.

Maybe move on there mate..

Reusable bags take up more resources than using single-use plastic bags. You’d need to use the reusable bag for decades to make up for the additional resources to create that bag compared to single-use bags. Things slant even more towards plastic if you can use the bag more than once, like for a bathroom trash bag.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.