If you are asking me, people worry too much about things they don't need to worry about, things which they cannot change. We are ALL dying anyway, so why are you holding on so tightly? The planet will last a long, long, loooooong time longer than we will.
I was reading a scientific article about how long it takes for plastic to decompose and the consensus is between 700 hundred to a 1000 years. "
oh my, how awful that my Starbucks cup will take ten centuries to disappear.... what a disaster--- oh my a thousand years, oh my!!!!!"
So, people are worried about plastic straws and the planet will thinking in a few Billion years like: "what were those tube things that those ape like things used to drink with--- you know the ape like things that eventually figured out how make wheels?"
LOL--- the planet does NOT give a shit about our concerns. We will be gone and replaced with some other kind of ape, or lizard like things that will eventually invent plastic all over again. That is if our sun doesn't supernova, or our entire solar system implodes back down to condensed mater as compact as a thumbnail. So, why are people like you so worried about this stuff? You are dying, we all are dying. Stop worrying about it, but mostly please stop whining about it, because it is kind or embarrassing to hear.