The Politics of Plastic Straws

I think sometimes you're a little bit too dismissive of the small things for my personal taste. I worry about things like the paper straw irritating people so that they like push back harder on future plastic bands which might actually be more effective. Everything happens within a system of constraints. How many topics can you get someone riled up to care about in a year? That number's not infinite. And so it always feels to me like a squandering of attention and the resources that we have available to get something done.