Environmentalists Are Grasping at Straws

Published: Aug. 3, 2018, 1 p.m.

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Drinking straws are being banned and phased out by cities and corporations under pressure from environmental activists. Is this moral progress or just a moral panic? What is the psychology behind such campaigns? And what are the economics of their consequences? The FEEcasters have a freewheeling discussion on the matter.

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