[jl2718]

Context: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43823883

And… I’m not the expert but I’m pretty sure the BPAs in the second fill are negligible compared to the first. The point is that they are all drinking single-use bottled water and trashing the bottles because of a tiny irrational concern for themselves.

The owner of Jungle Bay in Dominica said a similar thing. Like how we go to watch leatherbacks nesting, and Dominicans show up with hatchets. He was trying to do conservation from a banker’s chair in Morgan Stanley, but it wasn’t working because the people felt no connection to the ecosystem. He started the resort so that the locals would see the value that ‘we’ ascribe to it.