Dear Belly,

This is very much on topic. The acceptance on the ban on single use plastic bags is primarily driven by an acceptance by people of their impact on wildlife.

Places like Exmouth in WA, which is next door to Nigaloo Reef, banned them over 10 years ago. The locals were very attuned to what these bags were doing to the environment. It was easy for them to go with getting rid of them.

However I have no problem with people who question the impact. Generally with further research they can get more information and often acknowledge what researchers and wildlife carers are saying.

ALTRAV on the other hand is different. He claims to have zero regard for the suffering of animals. This lack of empathy is aberrant and concerning. Normally I challenge misinformation because it is often ideologically and or politically motivated. This is not the case here. It is strictly about him and the need for him to acknowledge his views are not just some over compensatory masculinity tripe but rather seriously out of whack perspectives that need attention.

We are so used to exploiting natural resources and
dumping our waste products into our environment that
we frequently forget that resources are limited and
exhaustible and that what we're doing can disrupt
the ecological balance on which our very survival
depends.

Over the past century, pollution of the environment
has begun to threaten the ecological balance of the
planet and the health of many of its species. The
pollution problem is becoming exceedingly difficult
to solve. The effects of pollution may not show
up for many years, so severe environmental damage
can occur with little public awareness that it is
taking place. Preventing or correcting pollution
needs to be an ongoing process and most industrialised
nations are now actively trying to limit its effects.
We need to be a part of this - by joining in this
process.

AC, could not agree more.
Good rendition of the situation.
I would like to ask of you.
I don't suppose you have read my previous comments and my total disgust for the Bilderberg Group and the Rothschilds, so it is that when I see them mentioned I like to follow up so as to add to my research on the scum, (and the fact that it's all negative).
My question is;
What is the link or connection to them and the supermarkets?
Hope you can help.

SeelRedux arm chair critic much to agree with there, but please consider,yes we must re use our currently wasted products, for every ones sake, my shop was nine bags, still shop as if town was 100 klm, away, to save on fuel, those bags are in the rubbish bin, and will be land fill tomorrow,we here know, must recycles go in to landfill, one council even told us,a truth is there, will these damn rot proof bags change any thing? why not? gee get of the lounge walk just a bit to a roadside truck stop, rubbish every place,and it stays there sometimes we can do better we can pay more but not if it, the whole new system, is a lie.PS twice, hard to believe but true found red bellied black snakes head firmly stuck in thrown away drink cans, one had to be killed the other had a deep cut when it went free,water living wild life suffers most

Foxy as usual got to the very heart of all our concerns

Foxy,

"We need to be a part of this - by joining in this
process."

Well said, now what we want to do, indeed should do, is stop all coal exports as we are contributing massively to global pollution, we export to China and India which are both starting new coal fired power stations and probably using our coal in them or else our exports are allowing them to use inferior coal in power stations thus increasing pollution.