Plastics in turtles, tin in goats, what to do, what to do...
Yet another plastic is evil story...
Plastic Found in 1/3 of Leatherback Turtles, According to Study
The article talks about plastics (mainly from bags) ending up in oceans, ending up in turtles as they look like jellyfish!
What about the jellyfish? The fake plastic jellyfish are SAVING the jellyfish! Go plastics!
But seriously, it touches on my major pet peeve of anti-plastics rhetoric. They are mostly nattering nabobs of negativism that lack clear and better alternatives and solutions. In this case their simplistic solution? Less bags. Now I'm all for reusable bags as superior to any throw away bag. But the problem is not the bag, the problem is you!
They don't touch on the core issue. HOW did that bag get there in the first place and what can be done to prevent it?
Many of you will remember Keep America Beautiful's great Crying Indian Ad, where he is sad at the littering. Ocean trash gets there from litter and tossed trash. If people had better control of themselves we wouldn't live in a trash filled world.
So many activists just want to shoot the messenger... throw out the baby with the bathwater... Oh I could go on. Do ANY of them rail against the litter? Virtually none. They spend ALL of their time villianizing the material.
The true solution reminds me of the Caesar, the dog whisperer, when he says, "Lady, the problem is not your DOG. The problem is YOU!" If goats really ate tin cans, these folks would all be against the evil tin! Rid the world of tin! Save the Goats!
If every one of the anti-plastics used that energy in a more productive, practical solution mindset and be against littering and simply pro bio-degradable instead of silly plastics is evil routine, we'd just get so much more done!