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Originally Posted by Cav
I am sick of govmints treating us like idiots and banning stuff that has no effect except to give them the high moral ground.
It is all about gesture politics that means nothing, achieves nothing and I have yet to meet someone who agrees that we should keep using single use plastic bags.
The reason I suspect is that people no longer think about what is happening. Add in a media that also has an agenda and we never have a proper debate on anything anymore where we exchange facts and logic to arrive at some point where all concerns are out in the open.
Are there any disadvantages in banning single use plastic bags?
Well how about this one ...
People will die.
Mention that to people and they just shrug.
That's right, they shrug.
Does this not mean that people care more about the environment and animals that they do about their fellow human beings.
A 2012 University of Pennsylvania study found San Francisco’s 2007 plastic bag ban killed people because reusable bags increased shoppers’ exposure to harmful bacteria that can infest them. “The San Francisco ban led to, conservatively, 5.4 annual additional deaths,” the authors concluded.
Don't believe me?
Here is the study
http://www.austincontrarian.com/file...-id2196481.pdf |
Looks like it's been written for a school project.
Ask your friendly microbiologist to take a skin scraping. You will find all those bugs and about a million more.
Don't go to the dunny, it's an e-coli nightmare. But if you don't poo you die...
I bought a new chainsaw bar this morning, I'm still trying to work out why it was covered in plastic. Then I had to spend 10 minutes rummaging around for heavy duty scissors to get the crap off.
We have to start somewhere with this, it's out of control imo.