Jan Wildeboer 😷Mar 16
Spring is coming. Time for a new broom. And why not make that broom a joyful statement? So thank you, Andreas BĂźrsten from Germany @buersten for making this possible. Away with the dirt. In with smiles and support!
Show threadMimiMar 16

@jwildeboer @buersten

Mmmm... Isn't plastic the famous dirt which pollute everything all around our tiny planet, our brains included?

Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷Mar 16
@A_Mimi Yes. And using wood is also disputable. I however made my decision that the statement is more important to me. But if you prefer: @buersten also offers brooms and brushes from natural materials, even vegan versions.
Show threadMimiMar 16

@jwildeboer @buersten

You know, there are natural dyes, plants, earths, used worldwide since at least prehistoric times.just like plant-based brooms.

The use of wood is a far lesser concern as these brooms will never be produced in large enough quantities to have an environmental impact comparable to that of these plastic ones that you find everywhere.

It is easy, indeed, to make non-polluting brooms: humans did so since the midst of times.

Show threadJames
@A_Mimi I hope your home is ENTIRELY without any sort of avoidable plastic for you to be so bold to shame someone for buying a rainbow broom made out of recycled material :)
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Show threadMimiMar 16

@DrJLecter

In any case, it doesn't matter: by 2030, your attitude will have contributed to triggering the end of the industrial revolution, which, according to the famous 1972 Club of Rome study (The Limits to Growth), predicted to end before 2100—a study you're surely familiar with—was already underway.

…unless you stop actively supporting pollution, which doesn't seem to be your goal.

The fact that it was a rainbow coalition would have been an excellent way to protect the LGBTQA+ community, but supporting plastic at the same time, as you're doing here, is quite the opposite, as if it were an attempt to make money off the backs of the LGBTQA+ community, for your own benefit and that of the plastics lobby.

“You destroy what you don’t understand.” – Jonathan Swift (speaking about humans, as a Yahoo Omrrh, in Gulliver’s Travels)

If, instead of trying to intimidate me, you had tried to better adapt to this reality, it would have been more productive for you.

It is still up to you.

Show threadJamesMar 16
@A_Mimi LMAO OMFG. What a sad person. How about you shame the big industry, capitalism, lobbyists and politicians. Jfc. Not a single person and not even the hundred or a thousand people buying that broom will be responsible for destroying the planet. You fell for the capitalism scheme of blaming the single person instead of the system. To tell ME. A SINGLE person that MY ATTITUDE will have destroyed the planet is a very particular mind set that can go fuck right off. You don't know me at all. I do everything in my power lessen the burden humanity puts on this planet without being an eremit in the woods. But my power does NOTHING to kill this planet.
Me never flying again will not replace a billionaire circling the planet in his private jet every couple of days. Me never driving a single mile again will not offset the carbon emission of a billionaire and his fleet of cars and yachts. The SINGLE average person won't destroy the planet and it won't save it. You being here and blaming a person for buying a fucking broom that brings them joy shifts the blame from where it belongs. Hope you understand this some day. Until then I feel sorry for you and good riddance.