Comment by BizarroLand
Comment by BizarroLand 5 days ago
I still vaguely remember hearing all the people saying to switch to plastic bags to save the trees. Huge ad campaigns, videos of sad animals and burned down, gutted forests on the TV and news all hours of the day.
25 years later and we are drowning in plastic, carrying it in our brains and gonads, it falls from the sky like rain, it is in the food we eat, our newborn children inherit the plastics from their mothers.
If I were a trickster god or the devil himself I couldn't have come up with a better joke than this.
> I still vaguely remember hearing all the people saying to switch to plastic bags to save the trees. Huge ad campaigns, videos of sad animals and burned down, gutted forests on the TV and news all hours of the day.
Damn, I'd pretty much forgotten those. So bizarre.
I know for a fact that at the same time those ads were running, many scientists were telling anyone who would listen that plastic wouldn't biodegrade for thousands of years...
And then there's the crazy fact of no one ever being held responsible for all that. I think you're the first person I've heard even mention them for decades; as if they were utterly memory-holed.
Curious about this now, I'll have to look into it a bit. Thanks!