You are being overly cynical. Single use plastics are a pollution problem. I spend many hours a year volunteering at beach cleanups to try and help keep these things out of the ocean. It is absolutely absurd that we use single use disposable items that will pollute the environment for thousands of years.

I also work in the clean energy industry and have devoted my entire career trying to fight climate change. I fully support efforts to curb single use plastic, and I fully support efforts to fight climate change. There are over 8 billion people in this world, we have more than enough human capacity to try and tackle both problems at once. The limiting factor is government inaction. So if you would like to point fingers, I suggest you aim them towards the politicians that have allowed the Oil and Gas companies to continue to pollute for so long.