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  • atro_city@fedia.iotoComic Strips@lemmy.worldMimi #64: Recycle
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    1 day ago

    There’s 2 sides to every coin. Consumers were lied to, yes, but consumers also choose to buy plastic over glass. But that’s not my problem with the comic. My problem is that it’s the posterchild of “nothing I do matters anyway, so might as well not care and pollute”. It also feels very much like a sarcastic excuse to people who tell others to clean up after themselves.

    environmentalism is good, but plastic recycling is not going to make the world better.

    Yes, but it can better than nothing. Shipping it off to a third-world country (which I think the EU finally banned) and then pointing at the country and saying “look, they don’t recycle, it’s not our fault” harms us all of course. Anyway, the comic rubs me the wrong way.




  • atro_city@fedia.iotoComic Strips@lemmy.worldMimi #64: Recycle
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    That is all true, but still not an excuse to drop your plastic bottle beside a trash can and when called out about it go “it’s all part of my evil plan”. These kinds of comics, regardless of their intention, will be used as a reason for people to say “recycling doesn’t work, so whatever I do, nothing will change, so I can pollute at will”.