— Musings —06.09.2019 04:56 PM
Straw man
Single use. pic.twitter.com/RDZvGgT3Fp
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 9, 2019
— Musings —06.09.2019 04:56 PM
Single use. pic.twitter.com/RDZvGgT3Fp
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 9, 2019
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Classic PM Zoolander. Silver spoon in his mouth,
telling the commoners they shouldn’t be using plastic. Stupid idea. Doesn’t make sense. Can’t happen. It will be announced in 2022 that this can’t be done. Aimed at naive first time teeny bopper voters who think their single vote will save the world but they don’t even know what riding they live in.
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…forgot the last ingredient for a PM Zoolander policy. Find a first term MP whose previous job was the rodeo clown at the Letterkenny county fair, give them a cabinet position and put them in charge of the file.
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I’m not so much in favour of multi-use. To me that’s a red herring. My preference is for easily biodegradable, if that’s actually possible. But I’m no expert.
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Single Use is fantastic. Non-biodegradable plastic is the ultimate recyclable.
And it is ridiculously cheap.
The problem isn’t the single use aspect. The problem isn’t even here in North America. It’s in Asia where waste management along the major rivers is a joke.
Check out the graphic attached in this article https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plastic-tide-10-rivers-contribute-most-of-the-plastic-in-the-oceans/?redirect=1
Making someone pay five times as much for a paper straw (not to mention the hassle) in Edmonton isn’t going to solve the problem. It’s putting pressure on those Asian nations to clean up their act.
And any scientist- anyone who has done the research and truly gives a $hit -knows that.
And that’s what is so infuriating- these virtue-signalling twits are wasting money and political capital on a useless thing when they could be calling out the real culprits.
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Thanks, Gord.
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I despise this government but I also despise whales dying with hundreds of bounds of plastic shit in their stomachs. Does that make me a bleeding heart?
And on what planet are thin single use plastic bags and cutlery etc recyclable??
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“And on what planet are thin single use plastic bags and cutlery etc recyclable??”
Both are recyclable. Plastic bags, dry cleaning plastic, bubble wrap etc are recyclable almost everywhere. Most plastic cutlery is also recyclable (check the number embossed on it) but many places can’t take them yet because they are too small to sort efficiently with current technology.
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The level of disrespect shown the intelligence of the intended audience by this move is disgusting. The timing – post-election- of it despicably shallow and hollow.
One can only think that they have polling showing significant support bleeding to the Green Party (not unlike the millions of Obama voters who voted for trump) and this a grasping at this straw – pun intended.
I don’t think it has a hope of working and may indeed hurt the LPC. (It will be something a lot of MPs will uncomfortably have to defend.
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I feel the same. This one was aimed at the Greens…what will they come up with to use against the NDP? The Liberals aren’t fooling anyone at this point (after so many lies and broken promises).
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Why do politicians always come up with reactionary illogical policies the satisfy a naiive or stupid voter base.?
Because it works.
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Sometimes. His old man certainly did with “zap!! You’re frozen!!”
Despicable.
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This is, quite obviously, far too cynical and opportunistic to work. Even the family dog can see right through this one.
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Great tweet!
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C’mon now, people. Let’s not talk ourselves into opposing or scorning this just because it comes from him. It’s a very serious and growing problem. I find it much easier to get behind this than a lot of “urgent” proposals to save the planet coming out of the climate change industry.
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Because most of the problems with plastics in the oceans are constantly coming from third world and second world countries industrializing and not from most first world countries.
Trudeau doesn’t have the real balls to stand up to some of those countries because we’ve got tight trade relations with them like China.
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Thank you so much for that thoughtful, measured and well-researched perspective. No, really, you’ve opened my eyes and taught me so much I never knew.
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So. JT announces a plastic strategy. Took him 4 years and still not ready – they need to decide which single-use plastics will be included. Note that plastic bottles are NOT included if he follows the EU guidelines, which he says he will.
So basically, a hollow promise that he will do something about plastics – a year or so after re-election. But it is all virtue-signalling because a key component – bottles – is not included.
Vote for this guy and Climate Barbie – NOT.
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If he’s going to get rid of single use plastics does that mean no more free needles and condoms? I think those qualify as single use. How about diapers? Feminine hygiene products? Wrappers on food? Will doctors have to use their gloves on multiple patients?
Does JT think before he opens his mouth?
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Oh yes, the always intelligent “let’s do nothing about anything that we can’t solve 100%”.
Obviously condoms have no substitute (aside from abstinence) and serve a life-saving purpose. Can’t exactly say the same about plastic cutlery.
Focusing on bags, cutlery, straws, product packaging to reduce plastic waste by 50% (or whatever) is better than bother and reducing it by 0%.