Why nag us about plastic bags when population is the problem?

Question

Why not stop paying for unmarried girls to have kids and only give foreign aid to countries with rigorous birth control programmes and good education systems for women? How much I use my car is irrelevant. Patio heaters contribute a fraction of a decimal of a percentage to our carbon footprint.

Answer 1

I was watching tv one morning this week whilst getting the kids ready for school.A newsreader said she had been out near the desert, and hanging from a tree was a carrier bag.There were pictures on the BBC news website that showed pictures of plastic bags in unusual places.One was underwater as a dolphin swam past.

I've bought the hessian bags from Tesco and use them every day.

The amount of plastic I recycle every week from packaging on food and cleaning products fills a bin to the top.

Answer 2

Unless population control is effective in the third world, they will drag us all down by over immigration. Look at how they reproduce when they come to the UK, they have more births per 1000 than indigenous inhabitants.

On the question of plastic bags, for companies that start charging for bags I will prominently  use their competitors plastic bags when I go shopping in their stores: for example I will carry Sainsbury's or Tesco's bags in Marks and Spencers.

Answer 3

plastic bags should be banned totally bc it is not biodegradable,

so is cement or concrete.

Answer 4

Plastic bags are killing animals NOW. This is not speculation it is FACT. Species which have been on the planet far longer than destructive humans. However do not agree that GW is caused by man. The average volcano probably spews out more CO2.

Answer 5

Every little helps. You can't do much about world population but you can stop using plastic bags.

Answer 6

Yes - how about a system whereby for every unmarried girl who foolishly/selfishly has unprotected s*x and then gives birth I can be given a plastic bag for my shopping, but for every girl that can conduct herself  in a way NOT akin to that of a drunken animal 'on heat'  I have to take my own bag when I do a bit of shopping. That would save millions of bags AND millions of unwanted pregnancies, and that way I could drive my car as much as I like (or at least need!) AND use all of the things I've worked hard to get throughout my life without having to worry about the do-gooders telling me I shouldn't "because it harms the planet.". As for the foreign aid, for years I've said Don't send them food or money - send them boxes of condoms ! ! !

Answer 7

Stop the plastic bag NOW.

Get rid of it ALTOGETHER..... then we have NO CHOICE but to use an everyday bag...........

Or is that too easy?..............?????????????

Answer 8

They complain about plastic. But if you say paper you are a tree killer. People should bring their own tote bags to the store. When it gets dirty just throw them into the washer.

Why give forgien aid at all?

Think of all the forest fires that are put out by firefighters put out that mother nature started herself. Its a way of clensing itself of debris, so other plants have a chance to grow.

Mother nature will also take care of over population.

Did you ever hear of the Spanish flu?

If you sneezed in public without covering up, you could be arrested. Look it up on the net.

Answer 9

Do you realize that there is an area of the ocean larger than the size of texas that is filled with plastic?  Plastic doesn't biodegrade either.  So while population is a growing problem, that doesn't give us an excuse for not cutting down on our plastic use.

Answer 10

Sure over population is a huge issue. But solving one part of the problem will not solve the entire problem. Small steps over a long period.

Plastic bags blow.

Paper bags are recycled several times and are able to decompose, albeit slowly.

No trees die for paper bags, any insinuation is specious at best.

Answer 11

we need to get rid of the trash that suck the lifeblood from our society. i.e. council scroungers, dole collectors, criminals, yobs, etc etc etc

then we wouldnt need plastic bags cause thered be no one left!

Answer 12

Overpopulation is at the root of every significant world

problem today, and everybody just dances around it,

wringing their hands over peripheral issues.

Nature has its own forms of prophylactic which we will

see come into play more and more in the coming years.

Answer 13

I partly agree with that. Do you know that about 3% of household rubbish is nappies. You'd think that people having children would care more for the environment for the next generation and have reusable ones. I heard they take 500 years to decompose, but I don't know if that's true (It's always the large families who seem to use more plastic bags at the checkout aswell, btw, it's as if they don't have 'time' to reuse them once they have children ) I think the environment and population control are very much interlinked.

I always get thumbs for saying this but people should have 2 or maximum 3 children so that they can provide a quality upbringing.

Answer 14

Yes, population is a problem, but so are plastic bags. The issue isn't about cost, they're using unnecessary resources and contributing a large amount to landfill waste. How much you use your car, and the type of car you drive IS relevant (please note that I believe that Global Warming is a natural phenomenon, but that we are speeding it up) I agree that the discussion about banning patio heaters is ludicrous, and your other points, although controversial, would bear proper examination.