> In reality, only about 5% of our crude oil use goes towards plastic.
This is such a dangerous take, and so popular.
If we want to fix climate change we need to get rid of emissions in all sectors (and yes, plastic does create emissions, both in the refinery process and later on landfills and in incinerators). It's not a reasonable strategy to only focus on the large and easy to fix emission sources.
Plastic is a hard to fix sector, and it's unfortunate that developments to decarbonize it have barely started.
This is such a dangerous take, and so popular.
If we want to fix climate change we need to get rid of emissions in all sectors (and yes, plastic does create emissions, both in the refinery process and later on landfills and in incinerators). It's not a reasonable strategy to only focus on the large and easy to fix emission sources.
Plastic is a hard to fix sector, and it's unfortunate that developments to decarbonize it have barely started.