Almost nobody disagrees: let's not put waste plastic in the sea.
Being against putting waste plastic in the sea is not environmentalism.
Environmentalists DO NOT WANT there to be an easy way to deal with waste plastic.
But plastic may well be the best substance to use, even in single-use applications.
* It is the least resource-intensive
* It is clean and robust
* it is in fact easy to dispose of
And that is why greens hate it.
The greens favourite replacements such as cotton bags use vastly more resources than the equivalent number of single-use bags. Producing and processing (washing) reusable items uses more resources than the equivalent number of single use items. That's why they're cheap.
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On the face of it, a nice rant about XR. But if you caveat your criticism with the necessity of 'tackling our carbon footprint', that you're 'no climate change denier' and that single-use plastic is unnecessary, then you have done XR's bidding.
You can't make a distinction between XR's objectives and their methods.
In fact XR are perhaps unique in their being the most honest about their outlook -- far more honest than any academics, scientists, journalist or politicians. But it's the same outlook.
That philosophy is anti-human, through-and-through.
It's simply more obvious in XR, as XR are in general too thick in the head to disguise what others are mealy-mouthed about.
There is no difference between street-level environmentalism and establishment environmentalism.
He offers no actual reasons other than, "...one thing I’m certain of is that if Carla Denyer, Adrian Ramsey, Tamsin Omond and Amelia Womack were all elected to Westminster, this would already be a better country to live in."
Cowardly Jenny Jones does not care for debate about the origins and philosophy and MO of her political tendency.
Greens don't do debate. There is no culture of debate in environmentalism. It expects only obedience.
Bizarre Jennie Jones doesn't mind her coreligionists depriving you of your freedom of movement, and the means by which millions make a living, but she is bothered by robust, free, open, democratic debate.