The liberal (fake) news tells us we need to stop using plastic straws

It's about controlling people through emotional appeals and harnessing them into action of their choosing. The exact action and its real world consequences are almost beside the point. If leftists can get the population masses doing something they want, while consuming space in the arena of discourse and within people's minds, they think they've enhanced their strategic position.

The primary model behind the theory that co2 equals global warming is Venus. Venus’ atmosphere is 90x as dense as Earths, and is made up of 96.5% co2. Earths atmosphere is .04% co2. Of that 3.4% is produced by humans. Of that 15% is produced by the US. Termites produce 10x as much co2 than humans. Man made co2 is utterly irrelevant, as is the entire theory of man made climate change.

It’s like saying a freckle on a 4’ white kid makes them the same as Shaquille O’Neil.

"There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's all right. It's the aperture to finding out what's right.
Science is a self-correcting process.
To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.

The worst aspect of the Velikovsky affair is not that many of his ideas were wrong or silly or in gross contradiction to the facts.
Rather, the worst aspect is that some scientists attempted to suppress Velikovsky's ideas.

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge.
And there's no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. And the history of our study of the solar system shows clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources." - Carl Sagan

They got that idea from a 10-year-old kid's research project. This kid only called 2 plastic straw factories to get his research, and those idiots in Sacramento used that and Monterey Bay's anti-ocean-plastic campaign to get rid of plastic bags and straws.

Yeah, sure. Like anything we do in the US is gonna stop everyone in Asia from dumping plastic into the ocean. *rolls eyes*

Plastic you put in the bin ends up in landfill. When rubbish is being transported to landfill, plastic is often blown away because it’s so lightweight. From there, it can eventually clutter around drains and enter rivers and the ocean this way.

It's not fake news.

I care about our environment, but the straw ban doesnt make sense. The other day at a restaurant I recieved a paper straw with plastic utensils and a paper cup with a plastic lid...

I think that is more related to microplastics: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-12/microplastic-study-reveals-global-ingestion-rates/11199498

It is more about reduction of mass used disposable plastics, such as plastic bags and straws, etc.

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It weird...to think that the straw that I used on my first trip to McDonald's circa 1975 is still in a landfill somewhere.

Scientist have no clue just how long plastic will last in the environment.

Your bones and mine will turn to dust and that plastic straw that I used in 1975 will still be...