How Corporations Convinced America that Litter is Our Fault – The “Keep America Beautiful” campaign urged Americans to pick up their trash—so that companies could keep producing it

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sinister-origins-of-americas-anti-litter-movement

by Carolina_Heart

4 comments

  1. If you throw things on the ground, that is your fault.

  2. For any of their faults, the aggressive anti-littering campaigns of the 70s and 80s were very successful in many ways and we should not revise history just for the sake of rhetoric.

    In addition, manufacturing corporations produce things that people buy. They don’t produce things that people don’t buy. This is a human problem caused by human behavior and saying “it’s not my fault, it’s the corporations” is uneducated and unproductive.

  4. Just recently on this sub some tool was screeching about his precious plastic straws and how environmentalists have no respect for the common schmos, taking away their plastic straws and that’s why environmentalists fail. Individuals who gave a shit took it upon themselves to put enough pressure on to get this one small little thing changed (in some places, temporarily) and the idiot masses lost their collective shit. Because forcing corporations to change also means that the consumers are forced to accept change and if they lack the understanding, acceptance and accountability for their own role in the problem then they, the consumer masses, will not accept the change and they’ll act to undo it.

    How the f#ck did humanity ever survive without plastic f#cking straws.

    Now, even littering is not a matter of personal responsibility??? No, it most certainly is. Take this endless, *endless* whining and finger pointing and deflection and shove it.

    If the everyday person cannot be expected to have the slightest shred of personal responsibility, even with something as incredibly *easy* as simply NOT littering, then humanity does not deserve democracy. They obviously are not capable of making good decisions and choices on their own. You can’t have freedom without responsibility. Everyone should be living under eco-authoritarian rule.

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