McDonalds lame sustainable straws wont save the planet but WILL make your life a little worse

Fearless green crusader and fast food behemoth MacDonald’s is keeping up the good fight against the environmental menace of ..

.plastic straws. Yes, the chain is moving nationally to a “sustainable” drinking straw — but diners aren’t happy with these morality tubes. Customers describe them as flimsy, say they can’t handle Mickey D’s milkshakes (if the shake machine is working) and say they make the sodas taste worse. Some even report having to use two to three times as many straws as they did before.So, not really very “sustainable” after all.Even if the flimsier plastic straws are better than paper straws, which all too many places embraced when the whole bogus “plastic straws are killing the planet” fad began.

In fact, fractionally reducing plastic use in the West is irrelevant to the supposed crisis of plastic dumped in the oceans.Count this another green policy that makes about as much sense as if it had sprung straight from the grease-stained desk of Mayor McCheese.  Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email address.

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No more gas stoves! Use induction ranges!No more steaks! Eat a bunch of ground-up mealworms!No energy exploration in America! Buy more expensive fuel from countries who pollute vastly more than we do in extracting it!Strangely, these policies do seem to have one reliable effect: Making life worse and more costly, in small but steady increments, for the less well-off. If progressives were truly concerned about the planet, you think they’d focus on pushing for the nuclearization of the grid in advanced countries and increased consumption of natural gas in less-developed ones along with working to improve battery tech and make wind and solar more efficient.Those ideas are somehow never on the menu.(And if people suggest they s...