What point is the author trying to make in the article? Plastic straws will be around regardless of the other materials. Straws are a necessity to have and other materials are better options. Other alternatives have just as many positives and negatives as plastic straws. There are many alternatives that can be used to make straws instead of plastic.

Read the passage. when i consider how my light is spent ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, and that one talent which is death to hide, lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent to serve therewith my maker, and present my true account, lest he returning chide; “doth god exact day labor, light denied? ” in line 7 of sonnet xix by john milton, the speaker asks, “doth god exact day labor, light denied? ” what does his question mean? why must god make us suffer to work? what shall one charge god to work in the dark? how does god expect him to work when he is blind? is god trying me?