Post #3440019
2026-06-21 03:07 UTC
I was always given to understand that the straw thing was because plastic straws get out and fuck up wildlife, but that message seems to get buried in handwringing over climate change so often that I suspect bad actors are at play spreading all these memes.
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@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2026-06-21 03:10
Idk. It’s not at all clear to me why or what’s the point of these very performative acts. There is almost no way it represents any practical differences to wildlife. It seemed to me something companies could “do” as a form of visual way of communicating that they were “doing something”, and it’s something that was done in sync, with no real consent of the consumer. It’s not like people were driving this. It was very much from the corporate side.