I’m someone that wouldn’t mind seeing single use plastics go the way of the dodo bird but 1) you should never trust issue polling even within a single country and 2) given that, I would trust it even less when the polling is “global”.
Let me clarify: you cannot make useful judgements on the basis of an issue poll alone. The information they obscure is just as important as the information they purport to present. This is why we have legislators who in their offices actually investigate and discuss issues of lawmaking with their base, and can even contextualize it within a framework of privileged or classified information they may have access to rather than take an issue poll at face value that says “most of <nation’s population> support X on issue Y” and simply vote that way.
