DippyBird

Please reconsider, it's not either/or, but both. Yes, policy can make a huge impact. Personal choices are also important. Your attitude is very common in USA, and rarer in Nordic countries. Consider thinking Nordic.

I used to live with an American couple who, while being very avid "policy environmentalists", would get take-out daily, and it would come in big styrofoam containers ("not their fault"). Regular amazon orders for 1 small item coming in a big box ("not their fault"). Buying the cheapest smallest size of something instead of bulk, etc. They generate ~30 gallons of trash a week.

With my European background, I have a habit of considering the impact of each actions, and only get take-out from places that provide minimal packaging, I limit my amazon orders, buy in bulk, buy recyclable containers, reuse, etc. I generate 1 gallon of trash per week.

If everyone is making 10% of the waste, the big companies generate less waste in producing what we consume. I don't make any great "sacrifices" either. Sure, I'm not getting overpacked Chinese takeout, I'm getting a Vietnamese sandwich wrapped in a single sheet of wax paper. I buy the bulk soap and refill my small dispenser. I buy liquor more often than beer (shipping efficiency). It adds up.

Don't buy another car just to get extra MPG. But if you are buying a new car, consider an electric / hybrid. Don't avoid ever flying on vacation, but if you're single and you fly for work, consider tacking it onto work travel. Bring a reusable water bottle to a fast food place. Etc. Be creative, think of it as a challenge for how clever you can be for the environment.

Once you start looking at things this way, you may be surprised how much less waste you create, and how much unnecessary waste is generated by your average neighbor. Those big plastic companies aren't pumping out plastic unless someone is consuming it. Plastic which is made out of oil, and needs lots of energy to produce and ship.

Yes, please also support good environmental policy, but don't forget we're all in this together, and it all adds up, including the little things. Think about your mass flow, and how to minimize it without affecting your quality of life. Thanks for reading!

What commercial methods exist for fishing that don't involve trawling?

It's basically common sense:

Authoritarian regime that kills political prisoners, yup. Ability to transplant organs, yup. Culture with aversion to donating organs, yup. Yet shortest wait list by orders of magnitude for transplants, yup. Large profit from organ tourism from other countries, yup. Reports of political prisoners having excessive blood samples and past medical history questioning, yup. Reports of genocide against minorities, yup. History of lying about data, yup.

I'm curious how anyone denies that China is harvesting organs. If you were going to kill a political/ethnic/cultural prisoner, why not wait till you could profit from their organs? Minimum we in the free world should boycott this disgusting regime. It's Nazi-tier evil.