As an additional perspective to what will eventually be my research paper on this topic of banning plastic bags, I found an article written by someone who is opposed to the idea.
This person pokes fun at the governor of California, who was pushing for more people to use reusable bags and demonstrating how he uses them on a daily basis.
The author talks about how it is "unfair" that we need laws to regulate how we carry our groceries home...Which is a valid point. The government can often abuse their power to put laws into action that can demean our freedoms, but there comes a time where we need to be regulated for earth's sake.
If we could just run around doing whatever we want, we would destroy our planet in no time. Banning bags is not a restriction on how you choose to carry your things, it's more so a necessary law, enacted in the name of mother nature. It is necessary that this law have repercussions that will scare people into abiding by it because we have proven that, left to our own devices, we do not make environmentally-wise decisions.
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