Posted on 04/24/2018 1:29:11 PM PDT by lowbridge
I will post this again.
Sometime in the late 80’s, I believe, the radical leftist environuts demanded that everyone stop using paper grocery bags as we were depleting the earth’s forests in the name of paper sacks. These same environuts DEMANDED that we use plastic bags in order to save the trees. Now, they changed their mind again.
This is like the coming ice age, er, global warming, er, climate change. Or like how they demanded ethanol for the environment only to find out ethanol is far worse. Or how electric cars are going to save the planet, except for all the destruction caused by mining for the batteries, disposal of the batteries, the trillions of costs for upgrading the electrical infrastructure and the mere shifting of one fuel for another with no real net reduction.
These people operate out of total emotion and are incapable of thinking rationally and critically. But they feel good about themselves.
New Yorkers: Please remember who did this to you at election time.
In the meantime, enjoy your shopping.
It did. And the present insanity shows that it's not about the environment, or the trees, or the sea turtles.
It's about control.
Of YOU.
The issue is never The Issue. The issue is always The Revolution.
SOOOOOOOO effing stupid.
WHY pick on shopping bags? I’d prefer the old paper ones, myself, but WHY the need to ban one kind of plastic bag that actually gets used again more than any other “single use” type of bag?
Trash bags, bin liners, sandwich bags, dry cleaning bags, gold fish bags, frozen vegetable bags, condoms, all are plastic and all are used only once.
So picking on shopping bags is what? Virtue signaling that annoys most of us? What’s the game?
There is a BIG difference between “biodegradable” plastic and BioPlastic which are made from organic material and truly decompose.
“Biodegradable” plastic is largely a scam, while it may break down faster than non biodegradable plastic, it is still made from petrochemicals, and they don’t fully compost, and only break down when exposed to oxygen and light. Which often doesn’t happened because they wind up buried.
Frankly I have no issue with the ban on plastic bags, while NYC may be the biggest city in the US discussing doing it, it has been done in many communities around the country, particularly those near the coasts or wetlands and its been a net positive for those communities.
Reusable bags are also a scam.. they wind up contaminated and are just not safe. Just use paper bags.
So Nancy Pelosi is not allowed in NYC?
With the plastic bags gone, the poop is ending up on the street. It led to a big outbreak of hepatitis.
Now that all the small white plastic bags are gone, in order to keep the homeless from spreading disease, they are now rounding them up and putting them in large white tents, i.e. large plastic bags.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I see what you did there. :)
Folks living near a state line can just as easily shop in PA or VT.
Works for me.
Hey, they banned Styrofoam which kept all of my lunches warm, so why not plastic bags? I'm already on the way out of the city so why do I give a damn?
The issue is Oppression, control and subjugation.
Remember when the Left wanted plastic bags to save the trees?
A problem not yet mentioned here is the spread of bacteria through reusable plastic bags. A few years ago there was a study where the researcher contaminated a bag with a virus that was harmful to humans and gauged its transmission around the store. It ended up pretty much everywhere. Washing reusable bags pretty much destroys bacteria and viruses, but not many people do that regularly (myself included).
Those are the intended goals of leftist revolution. From the French Revolution to the 0bamorrhoid Fundamental Transformation, the goal is indeed oppression, subjugation and control. Leftism is fundamentally totalitarian in outlook.
What about plastic straws?
yup
More commie hoopla from the ‘Son Of Sfacheme’
This pea brain seems intent on driving every last tax paying citizen out of the state. The only life forms left will be the ones that go Moo! or Baaa! Hey, at least they won’t be buying any semi-auto assault guns.
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