Slann
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via Imgflip Meme GeneratorPage 80 of the I have the power thread.
What? Why?Have you no idea how useful [plastic straws] are for terrain building?
It's a restaurant ban, I'm pretty sure private citizens in California can still buy plastic straws.
As to the why, it's because a video of a veterinarian pulling a bloody plastic straw out of a sick sea turtle's nose went viral. I like sea turtles, and plastic pollution in the ocean is a huge problem, but plastic straws make up less than 1% of 1% of the plastic trash in the ocean.
Pieces of damaged fishing nets is a large percentage of ocean plastic, but you cannot really ban plastic fishing nets without costing the fishing industries a lubricious amount of money. A ban on plastic fishing nets in United States coastal waters would be hard to enforce. Such a ban would be impossible in international waters.
At age sixteen, Dutch high school student Boyan Slat created a science project for a cost effective way to clean up plastic in the ocean. Now the Ocean Cleanup Project believes they can clean up 90% of the plastic in the ocean in a few decades using a variation of his design. At sixteen, Boyan Slat has done more good than most people could accomplish in a 1000 lifetimes.
But which teenager became Time Magazine's Person of the Year, a girl who became a meme. How dare you Time Magazine!
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