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Denial is over. Climate change is happening. But why do we still act like it's not?
(theconversation.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
I agree with the principle of what you're saying, but you do have to consider what it is that makes them produce all the emissions and detriments to our environment. The products we're buying. They aren't just generating waste for the pride of it, it's shipping and creating the products we're buying every day. Your straws might not directly be causing a major problem, but the creation and shipment of millions of straws does.
Or instead of waiting for a bunch of singular entities to correctly want the correct straws we could just stop the straws, but somehow the simpler solution is infinitely harder than the former.