Narratives Are Nothing Without Capital To Follow

Climate change, is there any other topic that has more lip service? If only what that mouth do was worth paying for yet billions get thrown at people claiming to be making positive changes to the climate, especially when it comes to governments and politicians.

Who would have thought people who spew garbage out their mouths from the landfill that is their brains would not be good at any recycling plan or way to move to sustainable practices.

Just like CEOs of today, it's not about the outcome, the product, the earnings it's all about the story if you have a good story you can keep throwing money at it and eventually it will come true. The fiat fairy godmother will make it true if we all wish it hard enough.

But as much as we want to click our stripper heels three times, Kansas will be going bye-bye along with the rest of the world if you keep following the narrative. The narrative is yeah we're banning straws and plastic bags and switching to whatever the fuck will be the fashionable replacement that's just another milk job of the consumer who feels compelled to be more "environmentally conscious".

Making an indifference

Yes, your Tesla and your Nike shoes made from recycled plastics are great but are you making a difference? We as humans can't resist a good bias which is why our perceptions are warped. I'm biased, you're biased we're all biased, but also we all love Ice cream, or scream for Ice cream rather. We all think because we've switched to something its problem solved time yeah us. All I did was do exactly what I always did, just getting it from another service provider.

So as a middle-class moron I'm now spending my money on a company who is making a difference but will eventually get sold to Shell or some oil company because fuckit, gotta diversify that portfolio.

I used this image for its shock appeal, shocking!

Image path - pressenza.com

Plastic promises

All the talk of getting emissions down and reducing plastics is all talk, and while consumers try to make small changes, the big petro companies are ramping up to dump plastic on us like never before. As these companies have invested $200 billion in plastic projects since 2010 and to think it's going to slow down any time soon is wishful thinking.

As long as the fake money keeps rolling in, we will continue to promote malinvestment that slowly ends up killing us all.

Micro problems

Plastics are everywhere, and the ones you see in your neighbourhood and the pacific garbage patch may seem awful. The straws and beer holders killing turtles is horrible, but microplastics are far more dangerous. As plastics break down they become smaller and smaller parts; animals eat it it's in the rain, the water all that shit. The average human now eats about 50 000 pieces of microplastic a year while also breathing in a similar amount, along with all its lovely carcinogenic properties.

Man-made ending

I have a bit of a wacky theory I'd like to put forward. We're often told that plastic and crude oils and synthetics are "man-made" as if we're able to pull shit out another dimension and manifest it here. All we're doing is manipulating carbons and atoms already here into a useless piece of single-use plastic that doesn't have a natural decomposer yet.

When I drop off a satisfying stool, there are some other creatures thinking jackpot, and they're all over that as fans of influencer are over likes on their latest post. Plastic doesn't have that, and it will continue to slowly kill anything that cannot eventually adapt to be able to break it down into simple atoms that can then be recycled into another some or other thing.

So the way I see it is we're slowly rebooting the earth and once the plastic kills all the ones that develop some mechanism to break it down survive and well done to those who do!

You're the real MVP's.

If we're slowly wiping ourselves out, who's to say it's not an improvement for the world?

Have your say

What do you good people of steem think?

Holla at me in the comments! All my commenters I will now refer to as Jessie. Jessie is a good friend of mine, but Jessies got a girl, and I want to make her mine.

So have at it my Jessies! If you don't have something to comment, comment "I am a Jessie."

Let's connect

If you liked this post sprinkle it with an upvote or resteem and if you don't already, consider following me @chekohler

---

Buy & sell STEEM	Donate LikeCoin For Free	Earn Interest On Crypto