Things That Have No Reason to Exist in Our Society But Inexplicably Still Do

Imagine this scene: a person is standing in his house, lighting matches one by one, then tossing the lit matches carelessly over his shoulder. He turns around and sees that the house is burning and will be nothing but ashes soon. He shrugs and keeps lighting matches.

That was a metaphor about the fact that we can actively see that we are actively destroying the earth, and yet most of us just shrug and keep doing it. The trouble is that single-use plastics are cheaper than many of the alternatives, and we have gotten so accustomed to using them that some people refuse to consider doing anything else.