Can someone explain?
I have peers who buy water in plastic bottles on a regular basis. Most live in countries where the quality of tap water is similar or superior to the bottled water. When I ask them to explain why they spend 1000 times more on water while we all have seen what plastic does to our environment, they come with no sensible reasons. Most are truly concerned about the planet. Many even have children. We humans are irrational, OK. But how much twisting of your mind is needed to buy often inferior products, transported from far away in damaging containers and still feel good about it?
Can someone explain?
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Data provide facts; their context yields knowledge, a rare commodity in the time of one-liners on social media. One-liners reduce everything to good or bad, us or them, cool or boring. Content is often posted without understanding. Maybe spreading hype is simply ‘cool’. I saw posts hyping a Tesla Roadster 2.0 with physically impossible acceleration while even version 1.0 is very far from being anywhere on the market. As if acceleration matters above all other features in a car as we transition to electric mobility. Basic physics of tyre friction and torque, power (kW) and energy (kWh) are confused. So, being the first to hype is more important than understanding the science. Is this vanity, looking for ‘likes’ or unawareness of one’s knowledge gaps? |
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