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[โ€“] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I sorta have three not entirely coherent and increasingly cynical feelings about this.

  1. That's neat! If redesigning bottles helps a little with emmissions then that's cool!

  2. Even though it might reduce emmisions, sometimes I worry that people think this is what ecological stewardship looks like. "Keep on burning fossil fuels and running an economy based on the exploitation of the earth, just change the shape of your wine bottles and we'll be ok!". We're not ok and this isn't enough, small actions like this don't cut it and we need to hold fossil fuel companies to account for the destruction they cause because it's too late.

  3. Wait, it's plastic!?!? Are we gonna pretend like CO2 is the only issue and killing millions of fish with plastic a year is something to ignore? Also, doesn't that effect the global carbon heat pump? Seriously, why is it plastic!?!? My only thought here now is that this is some cynical greenwash of a decision that was made to maximise profits and reduce costs.

[โ€“] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

Pretty solid analysis