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> They’re making businesses absorb the externalities, as they should.

That just means the business will raise prices.

I'll happily pay more if that means less trash, less microplastics and less CO2. The current consumerism is not sustainable in the long run.

And when all those unnecessary increases in the cost of living lead to increasing vote share for the far right - eventually maybe even a far right government - what then? How sustainable will that be?

Have you actually read the science on microplastics? [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/13/micropla...

Why is that automatically bad?

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