Literally no one thinks straw bans are going to reverse climate change and are sufficient. Like who the fuck are these guys dunking on here?
Local lawmakers trying to take the first tentative steps toward reducing plastic waste? 🙄
— Angie Schmitt 🚶♀️🚴♀️ 🚌 (@schmangee) September 30, 2019
I shouldn’t be, but I’m always surprised when liberals are always so shock-fuckingly naïve. I like Angie Schmitt and I agree with a lot of what she writes about transportation, but this is not a first tentative step for any damn thing. This is a distraction method, utterly pointless, and harms a lot of disabled people in the process while achieving absolutely nothing.
Worse than that, it achieves negative results, not only by harming disabled people, but by making me and others highly skeptical and resistant to such efforts that we might otherwise support. It’s a bit of theater explicitly designed to short-circuit any further progress in the name of “progress.”
I will never, ever understand the whole mindset of “We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do it.”