Is your life-saving inhaler killing the planet? NYT thinks so

$135,000 for a 26 day first class world tour sounds pretty good value for money, actually.

To get back to the main point, it’s obviously ridiculous to blame diabetics, asthma and anaphylactic shock sufferers for the tiny bit of pollution in their injectors when the van which delivers the injectors to the pharmacy produces kilograms of CO2 per mile. If it was an electric van powered by renewables, no problem. In fact, make those bottles out of glass because the extra weight doesn’t matter any more.

Society needs to work out what things are essential to make from plastic, phase out everything else, and work out how to filter the planet of micro-particles.

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