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>>5576676
If something is not profitable it is de facto not eco friendly.

Take US ethanol requirements. A ton of our corn crop is converted into ethanol to supplement gasoline. This makes the gasoline less efficient and increases wear on cars and required a new generation of seals and fuel lines.

The adoption of this led directly to the Arab spring and food riots in several countries because it spiked the price of food so high.

People died.

It was also literally a loss for the economy. If you spent one barrel of Petro energy growing corn in this way, you only got .8 of a barrel out. It only functioned at all through government subsidies. We were in a long recession forever because of the inflation this caused. We were burning trillions of dollars a year trying to get ethanol gas to work. We finally got it up to 1.2 barrels last I checked, which still isnt great but at least it's not automatically a loss.

Other stupid shit: plastic bag bans, plastic straw bans.

It's illegal to give away a disposable plastic bag that costs approximately nothing to make. Instead you need to reuse a bag that clutters up your house or car and gets nasty and needs to be replaced and costs like $5-15.

The plastic bags disintegrated in a few weeks of uv light because they are so thin. And most people bagged them up and took them to be recycled anyway with the rest of their thin plastic recycling.

Now I cant find anywhere to do thin plastic recycling for all the thin plastics I still get from shipping. I got all the nasty reusable bags that are moldy and made of durable material and very thick plastic and linings bonded to it and shit. Now I need to throw those away, and they cant be recycled because the plastic liner doesnt separate and it's a ton more waste from all this fabric and shit.

But if you ask a san Francisco eco faggot he will tell you they are saving the planet.