The article is much better than the headline, and details how companies are trying to make the devices less of an ecological problem. But the framing in the headline just made me think of this.
Sorry, I’ll try to manufacture them more sustainably once I can afford to buy the company.
See, all you had to do was have enough money to start a competing business in a market with very important safety considerations, and people will flock to buy your product instead of theirs.
- some dumbass Reddit libertarian
I do think the generic epinephrine injector is probably slightly better (and a lot cheaper), but last I heard it isn’t covered by insurance usually so there still isn’t a choice.
Well that’s stupid.
So glad we have our Healthcare system.
Healthcare accounts for around 1 to 5% of carbon emissions.
Meanwhile, the meat industry accounts for about 35% of carbon emissions.
Yah, healthcare is absolutely not the problem. Feel bad about the environmental impact of your medicine? You could probably make up for it with like one less meat meal a week.
EDIT: Archive.org link to bypass paywall for the article OP linked. Good read; they estimate healthcare as 8% of total emissions. Reading through, it seems it mostly focuses on insulin pens (which are an absolute godsend). I can’t help but think that attempting to recycle those is entirely the wrong strategy, and that we should instead focus on reducing diabetes cases in the first place. Losing weight, reducing sat fats, and eating fiber are all correlated with reduction of diabetes risk. I think we need some good old big-government regulation to start penalizing foods that have those things in them. We’re all paying the price for them already, time to start making the corporations do it instead.
Every time I give myself my Humira injection I feel a little bad about the giant plastic cylinder I’m throwing away.
But yeah, without it I may as well die, so 🤷🏻♀️
Think of all the pollution you would not make if you died! Maybe we should all die a little bit more
/s of course. Healthcare is inherently wasteful, just think of all the single-use stuff, that’s the cost of saving life. It’s okay to minimize waste, but should not be done at cosy of people’s health
Oh, ecofascism is very real. Society in general has a massive ableist bias, and the media play a huge part in promoting that. Disabled people and those with long term conditions are often framed as basically disposable. It’s everywhere, but it really feeds well in to the often white supremacist and otherwise privileged liberal “eco worrier” movement, but also right wingers who hide their genocidal intentions under a guise of concern for the environment, and even some anarcho-primitivists who insist we “go back to monke” without any regard for the lives of those who depend on technology and modern medicine. The more you look, the more of it you’ll see.
My wife is completely incapacitated and I am her care taker. I’m slightly terrified that she is on SSD given that fascists tend to kill disabled people and the government knows where she lives.
I’m disabled myself, in the UK, where the government has already openly set its sites on killing disabled people (tens of thousands already dead in the past 13 years or so due to a deliberately nightmarish claiming system alone, never mind the defunding of our health and social care systems and the innumerable deaths that has lead to), and I can tell you that sadly your fears are well founded.
If you can, find leftist disability activists near you, and see if there is anything you can do to help (it can be anything from donating and spreading info online, to being present at demos and taking other direct action).
They aren’t just going to leave us alone.
Corpses are remarkably biodegradable!
Nah, those bones linger for eons.
- Smorty [she/her] ( @Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•7 months ago
Turning oxygen into bad gases isn’t very good for the environment either