this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2024
72 points (96.2% liked)
Science
13206 readers
8 users here now
Subscribe to see new publications and popular science coverage of current research on your homepage
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Just like smoking, it’s going to have to take government interventions and massive anti-plastics ad campaigns to convince people to change.
It would be amazing if we could make it some sort of right-wing point of pride somehow… like, tell them that the reasons for all the gay and trans people in the world are because of the microplastics. Tell them that migrants would leave if we could only stop using plastics because they love the convenience of plastic and that’s why they come here.
“Plastic makes your children turn trans!” Would be quite convincing to some.
This is seriously the right way to go about this.
Conservatives are extremely gullible. Why are we not manipulating them as hard as their current handlers are?
Because we are naturally more inclined to honesty than they are.
Using facts doesn't seem to work, so yeah, just manipulate these dipshits into not getting themselves (and us) killed.
what large societal problem has been solved without government?