Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

  • Home
  • How We Are Different
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • Your Survival Guy
  • The Great Reset
  • COVID-19
  • My Rifles
  • Concentrate on Dividend Record and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • The Swiss Way
  • Dick Young
  • Debbie Young
  • Key West
  • Paris
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Freedom Force
  • Dick Young’s Safe America
  • Bank for International Settlements

Banning Straws? Overblown Climate Hysteria

September 6, 2019 By Debbie Young

By Lorna Roberts @ Shutterstock.com

During CNN’s Town Hall style seven-hour Democratic Party presidential candidate session, the most benign climate-change plan proposed was “more authoritarian than anything Donald Trump has ever suggested during his presidency. Democrats were not merely proposing massive societal upheaval but mass coercion,” warns David Harsanyi in The Federalist. Not once was any hysterical proposal challenged, Mr. Harsanyi also notes.

Ellie Bufkin, a senior contributor at The Federalist, presents some of the most blatant facts that “debunk the idea that giving up your bendy straws will do any planet saving whatsoever.”

  • The United States contributes less than 1% of plastic ocean pollution annually (The Wall Street Journal)
  • Plastic straws account for less than 1% of the 1% that the United States dumps into the ocean (Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions)
  • Paper straws are not actually biodegradable and use significantly more energy to produce than plastic straws. In fact, paper straws don’t degrade all that much faster than their plastic counterparts. (The Environmental Protection Agency)
  • No, you can’t recycle paper straws either. Items tainted with food product must go to landfill. (Recyclebank)

Unnecessary climate panic is changing the law and our lives at an alarming rate. While it may seem like a minor inconvenience to drink out of a mushy paper straw or sippy-cup lid, bans on straws have become the trendiest piece of legislation in the United States. Virtue-signaling progressives rejoice in what they consider to be “planet-saving” bans on useful items needed by children and disabled people on a daily basis.

The bans are not based at all on science and facts about ocean pollution, but entirely by emotional activists intent on making people think the world is on the verge of ending. Straws account for a nearly immeasurable amount of refuse in the ocean, yet laws are being changed at the whim of a conspiracy that they are a significant risk to the planet, despite significant evidence to the contrary.

Read more from Harsanyi here.

Related Posts

  • Bogus Studies and Climate Dystopia
  • Kids Buying Into Climate “Tipping Point”
  • The Green New Deal – Not about Climate Change at All
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Debbie Young
Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over three decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving her Porsche Boxter S through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga.
Latest posts by Debbie Young (see all)
  • Remind Us Why Washington Needs to Spend $1.9 Trillion - March 5, 2021
  • Does the Left Think Black Kids Are Too Dumb to Learn Math? - March 4, 2021
  • The Preposterous Fabrication from the Biden Administration - March 3, 2021

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • Richard Feynman Solved the Space Shuttle Disaster Mystery
  • Viktor Orban: No Immigrant Invasion for Hungary!
  • You Can’t Help But See the Truth About the Soviet Union in Chernobyl
  • Rich States, Poor States this State is Dominant Once Again
  • Ron Paul: “Freedom and Central Banking Are Not Compatible”
  • Can Ginger Combat Heart Disease and Improve Circulation?
  • Johnson’s Landslide Tory Victory Crushes Corbyn the Communist
  • Vermont Abandoned, Dairy Farm Economy Devastated
  • Biden Wants to Gut the Tax Benefit of 401K Plans
  • “The Losses are Taking a Toll on Their Health”

Our Most Popular Posts

  • Do You Know About the Great Money Explosion?
  • What’s Responsible for the Global Decline in COVID Deaths?
  • Has Bill Gates Been Injected Yet?
  • Gov. Newsom Discovering the Power of the Pen
  • “God Bless America”
  • Is This Proof the COVID-19 Case Numbers are Fake?
  • Teaching A Family Investment: Warren Buffett’s Annual Letter and You
  • The Assault on “Our Democracy”
  • MAP: Track the States With No Mask Mandates
  • Here's What the Media Won't Tell You About Bill Gates

Disclosure

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • Your Social Life During the Pandemic and MORE
  • Good Timing? Virgin Galactic Shares Tumble After Chairman Sells Shares
  • Do You Remember When You Purchased Your First Home?
  • Which Fossil Fuel Wins in a Shift to Renewables?
  • Richard Young Reports: The Great Money Explosion and Disasters
  • Fidelity’s 26 Million Retail Accounts in 2020, Up 17%
  • You’re Rich When You Invest Like Croesus
  • Joel Kotkin: Economic Civil War
  • Depositors in Europe Now Being Charged by Banks
  • Teaching A Family Investment: Warren Buffett’s Annual Letter and You

MAP: Track the States With No Mask Mandates

Remind Us Why Washington Needs to Spend $1.9 Trillion

Your Social Life During the Pandemic and MORE

Hidden Agenda: Bill Gates’s Ulterior Motives

Does the Left Think Black Kids Are Too Dumb to Learn Math?

Secession: Impossible? Not if You Think Locally

Copyright © 2021 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives