Why so much concern lately about plastic straws? Is there something unique to straws that makes them worse than other waste?

It's wrong that California made plastic straws illegal. It doesn't matter if plastic straws killed half the animal population and took down half our food supply of veggies, you take away freedom we go back to the holocaust and your gonna be wishing you were starving to death when your being resuscitated 10 times in a row from 10 repetitive heart attacks for 2 hours straight. My life feels like that, this tyranny needs to stop!!!

The world is drowning in plastics (upholstery, utensils, auto parts, aircraft parts, pipes, cushions, insulations, cups, plates, crates, syringes, medicine bottles, packaging, trash bags...) & all kind's of pollution (batteries, electronics, toxic heavy metals, drugs, chemicals...) due population overload which is a much greater treat than CO2 that helps green the planet. The more people there are the more consumption of all resources, the more manufacturing, the more waste, the more pollution of all kinds, the more vulnerable or endangered nature, fauna & flora are from extinction. Before the Industrial Revolution, Mankind was less than half a Billion in population throughout the world, now Mankind is 7.5 Billion & growing ever so fast (mostly 3rd world countries) since the 1930s as food preservation (canning/refrigeration), automated transportation (vehicles of all types: Land, Rail, Air, & Sea), electronics, plastic & breakthroughs in modern medicines became abundant & common.

According to NASA the world has been greening for 35 years when their research began. For 4 Decades, China has been taking advantage of the Warming to reforest the Loess Plateau. According Dr. Patrick Moore the climate is still in a little Ice age. A 1,000 years ago the climate was warmer & when Eric the Red landed there greener pastures to farm. Most deforested areas (75 percent) have been converted for human use (farm, villages, towns, cities, stadiums, golf course..). Degraded areas that's become a baron desert is possible to terraform again such as Saihanba forest. China has done it in the Loess Plateau for 4 decades by preventing the sand from shifting with the wind using checkered straw (sticks or grass straws) pattern buried halfway and planting saplings with barriers that retains water.

The US & Mexico needs a 10 mile wide Great Green wall on both side of the border. The border towns, homes, or homestead at the vicinity of the border wall needs to be relocated as cabin homesteads 9-10 miles away from the border on both side. Let the Great Green Wall of America be a wild life sanctuary for indigenous Wildlife such as the Ocelot, Bobcat, Jaguar, Mexican Crocodiles, Buffalos, Foghorns, Elk, California Grizzly & Mexican Brown Bear.

Urban & Suburban cities needs lungs by planting pocket forest & build vertical forest. There should be a 7 acre forest park with an acre or 3 acre wide farms surrounding it at every 10 miles radius at 4 points of the Compass in urban & sub-urban cities.

why do they make such a fuss about straws when something much more catastrophic is happening right now! Please take a look at this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CHuj34Aen8

Liberalism is the problem.

Thats our mainstream media, seize on an item of news and build it up all out of proportion.

Its another false outrage for control

That's a good point. I think straws seem like an easy thing to replace with paper.

A straw got stuck up a sea turtle's nose. Go finger it out.

Because using ANYTHING made of plastic is not politically correct these days. MOST fast food restaurants have already gone back to paper cups for drinks, but they still use plastic straws.