Thursday, June 27, 2019

About that ban on plastic straws....

The ban on plastic straws is built upon unverified statistics from a child's little "straw free" project. That makes it junk science (not to mention the worldview behind it is a problem, not the least of which is how certain people deem themselves to be the determiners of how many straws is "too many"). Even USA Today had to admit it's a claim, not a FACT.

Besides being based on a guess of how many straws are used per year that was used in a 9 year old's little project, here's a few facts they aren't telling you as reported by Fortune :

*EPS products are significantly cheaper and less resource-intensive than similar products made of different materials. For example, manufacturing a disposable paper cup requires at least 20% more fossil fuel and almost 50% more electricity than a styrofoam cup does. Paper goods, the most likely alternative to EPS, create more waste and water and air pollution than EPS does.
There’s little difference between throwing away a styrofoam cup and a paper one, and paper products used for food handling are less recyclable than EPS products. They can’t be washed like EPS, and any food contamination makes them unrecyclable. Moreover, paper products frequently are thinly lined with plastic to make them sturdier and water-resistant.
* In fact, an MB Public Affairs study found that banning styrofoam in food service and drink containers in New York City would equate to a 94% tax. Since local eateries generate fewer sales than large chain restaurants, they have less wiggle room for compliance costs. As such, these bans are likely to have disproportionately negative consequences for small business owners.
*To address the problems caused by plastic pollution, it’s better to target its improper disposal than plastic itself. Most of the plastic waste in the oceans comes from countries that don’t have good systems for putting trash in landfills. Around 90% of the plastic in the oceans comes from just 10 rivers: eight are in Asia and two are in Africa. So banning plastic here in America will have little measurable effect on pollution worldwide.

End quote. Go here for the full article. Links found in the article. 

Yet again, this shows that the worst polluters in the world isn't the US or UK. They are the poor or developing countries. It doesn't make sense to punish the US (straw dictators) consumer for something they aren't responsible for. This is unjust and frankly unreasonable. But these are the same that call for "social justice" and are pro-abortion, anti-guns, and pro-cannabis, who use fake science to manipulate people into behavior they approve of (global warming isn't a thing), not the least of which God promised in Gen 8:22  "While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease.") and to reject their notions is to be accused of hate speech. 

Business Financial has an article headlined:

"How green activists manipulated us into a pointless war on plastic: Instead of responding to turtle videos, it would be more useful to zero in on the real sources of floating waste" in which they discuss the manipulation of the environmentalists.
Even liberal NY Post's editorial board said it's a scam with an agenda, not about facts. You should also remember that Obama's environmental advisor, Van Jones, a self described Communist, subscribed to the mentality of "Green is the new Red" (and he was the one who started "The New Green Deal", not AOC) and that sure is true. This is how the Left wants to control every aspect of our lives, from thoughts to how we live. It is actually a religion and they get fanatical about it. That building homes is often stopped or delayed for years because of a fly or other insect, or water stopped flowing to ranches to water crops because of a useless sucker fish, should tell you their priority. This is against the Creation order of things on many levels.



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