If you dare come at me about banning straws, I will throw you into the sun cannon. Iām disabled, Iām crippled, I need disposable plastic straws, and all those pricey ridiculous alternatives arenāt working as well. Plastic straws were invented for the disabled.
Way to shit all over a vital access need because you think straws are worse than corporate greed.
We all care about the turtles, the seals, the oceans, obviously. Notice how the easiest thing to yell about was something that would barely affect anything but appealed heavily to emotional discourse.
The disabled community is huge, and it can be joined by anyone. Most of those As Seen On TV products were invented for us. Society still mocks us and ignores us, and often outright harms us in multiple ways.
Communicate better. Listen better. But stop putting us out in the cold because you are inconvenienced by our simplest needs.
Straws arenāt killing the planet, its animals, or people. Theyāre a microscopic fraction of an iota of a percentage of the problem. You want to do something? Ban plastic fishing nets. Anything else is just a hollow feel-good gesture at the expense of real living disabled people.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/great-pacific-garbage-patch-plastics-environment/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ocean-plastic-fishing-waste_n_5bc47dc9e4b0bd9ed55c1f60
i have an environmental degree and iāve been saying this since this straw ādebateā started: its all a tactic by those in power to distract peopleās attention from bigger issues such as fishing waste. donāt fall for it. and donāt be a dick to disabled people who need straws to make their lives easier.
