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  • hswolf@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I don’t think that’s the right perspective to have on this, a good action isn’t bad just because It wasn’t the best action possible.

    And the solution you brought upon, would still leave the first problem afloat, “great, we reduced plastic consumption, but who’s going to remove the plastic that is already in there?”, It’s a paradox you see? If he chooses option A, people will burn him at the stake because he didn’t choose option B.

    I was skeptical at first when I first got aware of him, then I did some research and there’s a ton of philanthropy there, lots of people got some help they needed.

    EVEN if it’s done with ulterior motives, the non changing fact is that people indeed were helped.

    Whichever motives he has behind his persona, he has helped more people than most could or would’ve helped in their entire lifetimes.

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      10 months ago

      I would follow on from you by saying removing plastic is the better of the options anyway. Good old free will means you can’t force people to choose to use less plastic and alternatives, but you can force yourself to go and do something about it - we can’t even make them use a bloody rubbish bin.

      I mean, how would you even go about it? Lobby governments against organizations with much bigger pockets, advertising campaigns to tell us what we already know, start a political party?? Cleaning beaches already showed what we as people are doing and what we can do.

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      10 months ago

      Dredging the ocean can come after we stop putting trash in it. There’s a finite amount of resources for these activities and they should be first directed to the most effective solutions first. He apparently thinks he has enough influence on his audience to direct them to clean up his chocolate bar displays.

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        9 months ago

        Dredging the ocean can come after we stop putting trash in it.

        It must be both simultaneously. You don’t ignore a patient with a gunshot wound by telling everyone, “Ignore the dying man until we ban guns!”

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          9 months ago

          I’m sick of metaphors.

          By TeamSeas account, they’ve removed 9,286 metric tons of garbage from the ocean since 2021. We collectively put 11,000,000 metric tons into the ocean every year. The Teamseas method of removing one pound of trash for every dollar would require 250 million USD every year. That’s not sustainable for a charity to run on indefinitely.

          We should be switching to biodegradable paper or recyclable aluminum. I’ll have to look closer the next time I’m in a convenience store, but it looks like MrBeast’s chocolate bars are packaged in plastic. We already know how to package chocolate in paper.