I personally don't mind the wooden cutlery but I get the sentiment. Never experienced a mouth splinter before - that might change things for me 😂

The switch away from non-biodegradable single use plastics to paper and wood is obviously a very minor step in progress in the grand scheme of things but it does eliminate waste in landfills, to an extent.

I think what these situations demonstrate though is that companies won't do the "right thing" unless they are regulated and mandated by the government to do so. As demonstrated time and time again. Consumerism is a whole other beast though. Its almost a chicken and the egg scenario. As long as there is a demand for cheap products and fast fashion then companies will keep producing them. How do you get people to stop shopping, especially when there is always talk and emphasis on economy and GDP...ect?

I find it somewhat alarming how we are starting to move backwards as a society in many ways - like in energy for instance. The push for Solar and renewable energy has seemed to stall out and now we are going back to oil and coal burning. That's wild to me.

As a generalized human society we put the emphasis and importance on money/profits/business/economy...etc and when we look at life solely through that lens, it changes how we choose to exist on this planet. This is an overgeneralization of course and it's sort of a spectrum where an individual country's ideologies falls on that scale, but you get the idea. If we collectively looked at life through a different lens then we would shape society differently.