The World Wildlife Fund and Ocean Conservancy both provided ebullient quotes for Starbucks’ press releases. Liberal magazine The New Republic praised the move as an “environmental milestone.” Slate hailed the Starbucks straw ban as evidence of as a victory for a bona fide anti-straw movement, one that would hopefully lead to bans of more things plastic in years to come.
Yet missing from this fanfare was the inconvenient fact that by ditching plastic straws, Starbucks will actually be increasing its plastic use. As it turns out, the new nitro lids that Starbucks is leaning on to replace straws are made up of more plastic than the company’s current lid/straw combination.
WWF? Wasn’t that the org that Buttsy was running before he got the puppetry gig with Dolton McWimpy?
It was indeed…he was CEO.
As was David Miller, former mayor of Toronto, another progressive moron.
I think they are grooming Miller to assume a role in Federal politics. The WWF is a globalist group. I think their entire reason for being is to push globalist politics and train up and comers on the left.
Typical Leftard Virtue Signalling as per usual….Straws comprising some .001% of Plastic Pollution..
Amazing Stupidity but not at all surprising..
Liberalism is a Religious like Disease
Gives a whole new meaning, a newspeak you can say, to the “Straw man”.
I can still remember when the WWF was running those fake inserts into those George of the Jungle VSH Tapes about the Rain Forests its like those school where they banned all that styrofoam food boxes started using paper and their litter problems went up this campaign against plastic straws is as stupid as most all of their Go Green Ideas and Ocean Conservancy sounds like just another group of useful idiots and the New Republic is just another liberal leftists rag like TIME,NEWSWEEK and ROLLING STONE
“We need a famine.”
No worries. Just keep voting Liberal, there will be one along shortly.
Meanwhile, it seems that Starbucks has decided they don’t want my business, so I will be a compassionate and well behaved lad and not bother them with my filthy, filthy money anymore.
Just when you think….”they can’t be this stupid”…..they double down on it
– And wasn’t Ocean Conservancy the outfit that tried to push-through re-naming fish “Sea Kittens”, presumably so young kids would start kicking-up a fuss when you fed them fish and thus hopefully scoring points against commercial fishing?
Too lazy to look it up…
Guess who:
http://features.peta.org/PETASeaKittens/
I take it, then, that the early church was unfriendly to the environment because some of Christ’s disciples originally earned their living by harvesting sea kittens.
I believe it was Mark Twain who said that the reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to make sense. I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried.
Amazon just delivered 750 plastic straws. That should last me until the Zombie Apocalypse.
Light bulbs, ammo and now straws – what’s next ?
Optics versus reality. If they had some stones, they’d force their SJW mofo A-hole customers to bring their own cups.
Symbolism, ritual and guilt/sin are common components of religion. For cultish psuedo-religions the more absurd things they can manipulate their followers into believing, the stronger the cult’s hold on them becomes. Extreme environmentalism is a cult-like fundamentalist branch of the Progressive Church. As is identity politics and intersectionalism. For example:
If you mock Catholics who believed in heliocentrism – that the solar system revolved around the Earth, but also believe that man-made CO2 is the control knob for the world’s climate, that fossil fuels are evil, climate Armageddon is upon us and redemption is found in a carbon tax…then you might be a religious fundamentalist progressive.
If you mock Christians for believing that a virgin woman gave birth to God’s son, but also believe that men can give birth and it’s an unforgivable sin to misgender those men by calling them biologically female…then you might be a religious fundamentalist Progressive.
If you believe plastic straws are the key to cleaning up plastic pollution while ignoring the real source of plastic pollution…
Correction : geocentrism not heliocentrism
Addition : I wonder what future generations will name the ideology that believed that humans controlled the weather/climate – Anthropo-meteorologism?
By then, they will see that we are now in the Anthropocene Age.
I think you mean the Adjustocene Age.
Catastrophic anthropogenic global warmimg (CAGW) “adjustments” by climate scientists are very similar to the epicycles that made geocentrism work.
To clarify, I’m a lukewarmer not a denier. The physics says that climate sensitivity to CO2 (the temperature increase with a doubling of CO2 concentration) is about 1.1C. That seems like a reasonable estimate and human CO2 emissions contribute to part of that increase. Other warming is due to natural variability and natural cycles, which science is still trying to completely understand.
Trying to understand or hide?
LC, I’v pointed out to you before, we are at the point on the curve were logarithmic math rules. Because H2O also traps the only frequency that matters, 15 MM, 95% of 15 MM is now trapped, and adding any more CO2 has insignificant effect. Think saturated!!!
Well, it’s official. The world’s gone crazy.
A few years ago the show SURVIVOR had a part about his the prepare a rat for cooking those PETA idiot held a stupid protest with one member wearing this stupid rat costume and carrying stupid sign reading RATS HAVE RIGHTS Yeah PETA jerks what about the Birds on these islands who nests were being raided by introduced rats i favor efforts to eradicate the rats from this islands and PETA lost a idiotic lawsuit about a monkey selfey PETA IS FOR IDIOTS
IIRC that is about what Ireland demonstrated with their plastic bag games of the early 2000’s
Starbucks needs to die. It’s an SJW sh*t show that serves overpriced horse manure runoff to people with no more than two brain cells to run together.
Tanker, well said. I’v tried Starpiss twice, and can’t stand the shit!!!
I went into one, once.
Gang Green hard at “work”.
Stupidity this intense is fatal.
Once it sets in amputation is the only hope.
Banish these asshats to an Island, Of our Dreams.
One with no way off and cannibal plants.
Large apex carnivores will also be fine.
Would be the best “live” TV show since President Trumps election.
I can still remember all this Save the Rain Forests poppycock back in the 1990’s or The Rain Forests are the Lungs of the Earth(Only if your into this Gaia poppycock)or they were being wiped out at the rate of 10 city blocks and it was all a load of Horse poo back in the 60’s &70’s it was Pesticides these Grano;a Bar Munchers/Tree Huggers Liars alljust read the book Eco-Freaks