That’s a standard problem with ecology. I can’t use a plastic straw which has negligible impact but finishing industry can dump 640,000 tonnes of plastic every year and that’s fine. Let’s just ignore that.

You go on holiday once a year with the efficient normal flight - bad guy. Ritch person uses private jet for no good reason - that’s normal. Let’s ignore those emissions and create special rules for the airlines so they don’t have to worry about it too much.

Private jets pollution doubled during one year and it’s probably the worst way to travel for the environment but I hope you have spent your life savings for a slightly better car to compensate that. We can’t inconvenience reach people, right?

Yeah let’s not do anything because something else is worse.

In just the U.S. alone, one estimate suggests 500 million straws are used every single day. One study published earlier this year estimated as many as 8.3 billion plastic straws pollute the world’s beaches. In the U.K., at least 4.4 billion straws are estimated to be thrown away annually.

Imagine all of those straws in a single pile. 3000 tons of straws.

Now imagine a pile 200 times larger. That’s what the fishing industry is doing.

We’re moving sand piles while they’re building pyramids.