SPOTLIGHT: Online jokes about plastic straws provide welcome comic relief.

BIG PICTURE: Banning plastic straws in North America is a foolish waste of time, yet cities in California are doing just that.

The appeal is to our emotions rather than to our reason. Strategic thinking is entirely absent.

Disabled individuals, whose lives are already difficult, are being victimized – for no meaningful, big picture benefit.

Several humourous memes about this terrible idea are now circulating on the Internet. Here’s a selection:

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TOP TAKEAWAY: When politicians jump on idiotic bandwagons, it’s better to laugh than to cry :-)

LINKS:

• The last straw. I need plastic straws. Banning them puts a serious burden on people with disabilities
• Plastic straw myths (with video)
• my previous commentary: Ocean plastic: the 1% solution vs the 55% solution
• Banning plastic straws, harming real people
• Coercing your neighbour over plastic straws
• Greens are pivoting, plastic is their new obsession
• From carbon footprint to plastic footprint

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