(September 20, 2019 at 12:07 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: So glass bottle weigh many times more than plastic. This means shipping the same net weight of beverage entails shipping a much greater gross weight. This in turn means burning much more fuel and emitting much more green house gas.
But decomposing plastic bottles also emit green house gases, and we're talking about million plastic bottles being bought around the world every minute which then additionally destroy the oceans, environment, enter into the food and water and therefore get ingested by humans and animals. While glass can be reused and recycled.
Granted, if coca-cola used glass bottles they wouldn't be able to sell as much as drinks as they are selling now, which wouldn't be so bad since people would ingest less sugar.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
