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A lot of progressives are angry at the cheap plastic crap that Action sells but they conveniently forget that poor people don't scuba dive in the Carribbean much.

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No this is just straw-man. If someone is caring for one thing it does not mean they do not care about other.

Not sure what your argument is. Is it that rich people do and therefore cause more plastic waste?

probably yeah, and it makes sense as long as you stay in the bubble of thinking that your plastic trash doesn't get shipped to some place to be dumped and forgotten

... close to the ocean

The argument is that we’re going after the wrong things, usually. Of course we want to improve things across all vectors, but we’ve been disproportionately asking the lower and middle classes to make sacrifices; and have been too lenient with corporations and the ultra-rich. Most pollution isn’t caused directly by the things we’ve been fighting.

So you thing that `progressives` are going just after these things?

There are many comments in this thread that are just blame shifting from one side to another. That is why there is not going to be done anything about it. There is always someone else to blame.

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