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@thor
Solar panels have their place. They're great for someone living a modest life, on a self sufficient farm, off the grid, things like that.
You just can't expect to depend on them to power a big, industrial focused country. They work better as an useful addition, to an alternative consistent power source, to lower electricity costs during the day.
@alyx @thor yeah it’s pretty stupid, granted paper can be recycled but so can plastic. plastic is also a lot firmer, especially straws. i even know some environmentally conscious people who find the plastic straws extremely impractical
there’s also the fact that, while plastic ending up in the sea is tragic, this is mostly the fault of large corporations rather than the average consumer. yet those same corpos all fingerpoint at us. it’s a blackpill
@lottev @thor
If you can grow biomass as fast as you use it, you technically reabsorb the CO2 from burning it. So you'd get the net zero. But that ignores the energy costs of processing, transporting, etc.