Which bag should you use? - Luka Seamus Wright and Imogen Ellen Napper
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Date: 2020-11-19
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Logan
The wood industry can and in many countries is sustainable. Cutting trees down removes that carbon from the area. When trees naturally die they release the carbon back to the air as they decay. So by processing trees we are preventing carbon (at least some) from going back into the environment. As long as we have reforesting to counteract the removal, the forests remain a carbon sink and we actually prevent carbon from going back into the atmosphere with processed wood products.
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The wood industry can and in many countries is sustainable. Cutting trees down removes that carbon from the area. When trees naturally die they release the carbon back to the air as they decay. So by processing trees we are preventing carbon (at least some) from going back into the environment. As long as we have reforesting to counteract the removal, the forests remain a carbon sink and we actually prevent carbon from going back into the atmosphere with processed wood products.
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Mate
Am I the only one who feels the conclusion a bit hasty? I was basically: Hey, here is this bag that combines the benefits of all other bags. Ehm. ok, doesn't it also combine all of the disadvantages? Also, I feel like a few options are neglected, like. you know. a backpack, that you have anyway. Also, for plastic you mentioned coal powered facilities. Are they coal powered everywhere or only in the US?
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Am I the only one who feels the conclusion a bit hasty? I was basically: Hey, here is this bag that combines the benefits of all other bags. Ehm. ok, doesn't it also combine all of the disadvantages? Also, I feel like a few options are neglected, like. you know. a backpack, that you have anyway. Also, for plastic you mentioned coal powered facilities. Are they coal powered everywhere or only in the US?
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Sarah
If a tree is grown for the specific purpose of making lumber then using it later on for that purpose might have a net positive impact on the environment since it's been cleaning the air for all the years it was alive (someone do the math) and bruh you cant count water because it's a renewable resource. This video is being negative and spreading fear over nothing
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If a tree is grown for the specific purpose of making lumber then using it later on for that purpose might have a net positive impact on the environment since it's been cleaning the air for all the years it was alive (someone do the math) and bruh you cant count water because it's a renewable resource. This video is being negative and spreading fear over nothing
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Andr
Well, when you throw carbon from trees in the atmosphere, It will be taken again by the other trees planted on their place (so it's basically carbon that already was in our environment, but you can't just stick all the carbon generated by plastic under the ocean again. Wasn't this the whole point of not using plastic? Why wasn't it taken into consideration?
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Well, when you throw carbon from trees in the atmosphere, It will be taken again by the other trees planted on their place (so it's basically carbon that already was in our environment, but you can't just stick all the carbon generated by plastic under the ocean again. Wasn't this the whole point of not using plastic? Why wasn't it taken into consideration?
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jrpipik
Bags made from plastics of any kind come from non-renewable sources. We can grow more cotton and trees, not more oil. And don't forget the process of extracting oil from the earth is itself environmentally risky if not outright damaging in itself, and occasionally it's catastrophic. I think TED needs to recalculate environmental impact.
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Bags made from plastics of any kind come from non-renewable sources. We can grow more cotton and trees, not more oil. And don't forget the process of extracting oil from the earth is itself environmentally risky if not outright damaging in itself, and occasionally it's catastrophic. I think TED needs to recalculate environmental impact.
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DPowered
There is no simple solution, if you just look at it individually what you do doesn't matter all that much but if you try to make it matter and other people also try then it makes a difference because everyone is trying to do better. But its a constant process and we need to change society itself to make bigger impacts.
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There is no simple solution, if you just look at it individually what you do doesn't matter all that much but if you try to make it matter and other people also try then it makes a difference because everyone is trying to do better. But its a constant process and we need to change society itself to make bigger impacts.
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AiguilleVoodoo
Most of my reusable bags don't last more than 6 months, I find them very wasteful. The handle rips or I simply loose them. If I don't have a reusable bag I use plastic bags and reuse them 5-10 times, which would be the equivalent of having the same reusable bag for a few years.
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Most of my reusable bags don't last more than 6 months, I find them very wasteful. The handle rips or I simply loose them. If I don't have a reusable bag I use plastic bags and reuse them 5-10 times, which would be the equivalent of having the same reusable bag for a few years.
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HaveAnAmazingDay
Not only that we should use the most eco friendly bag, but we should also reduce the amount of products we buy by making sure we only buy what we need, so we don't make food and product waste that uses extra bags when we shop from the store.
Does that make sense?
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Not only that we should use the most eco friendly bag, but we should also reduce the amount of products we buy by making sure we only buy what we need, so we don't make food and product waste that uses extra bags when we shop from the store.
Does that make sense?
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jayfulf
Use bamboo instead of cotton, it s one of the fastest growing plants in the world with relatively low water use. Another factor would be micro plastics. The effects of which are still not fully known and still not entirely realized.
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Use bamboo instead of cotton, it s one of the fastest growing plants in the world with relatively low water use. Another factor would be micro plastics. The effects of which are still not fully known and still not entirely realized.
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Jeff
All those statistics and yet none given for the bags your promoting as the best? what kind of argument is that? How do you expect to convince people of you argument without the statistical facts to back it up?
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All those statistics and yet none given for the bags your promoting as the best? what kind of argument is that? How do you expect to convince people of you argument without the statistical facts to back it up?
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