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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by JoeAltmaier on Thursday February 22, 2018 @03:03PM (#16440885)
All irrelevant to the comment: how 'pretty' the creek is, is not an ecological metric of merit. Its all about Ph, CO2, erosion and a hundred other things.
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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by cornholio on Thursday February 22, 2018 @04:29PM (#16441566)
Keeping the planet livable and diverse is no more objective than keeping it plastic free. Ecology is by definition a human value, the universe doesn't care about CO2, biodiversity or erosion anymore than it cares about plastic bags.

(But sure, subjectively, plastic bags are a lesser concern, because they merely inconvenience us and trigger our empathy when a critter chokes on them, without directly threatening our own survival).

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