Regardless of one&#x27;s feelings about &#x27;climate change,&#x27; it really behooves us to stop doing a variety of things in a way that are hugely destructive to the planet and ourselves. That would be good policy no matter what, but the fact that so often our hugely destructive actions are in the service of deriving relatively minimal value makes it patently absurd.<p>So it was quite striking that in the few images I saw from the recent Climate Summit in Paris, there were people standing around tables scattered with plastic water bottles.  Really? Given the subject matter under discussion and you&#x27;re going to sit around drinking water from a material derived from oil, that after it&#x27;s brief service to you will have negative and hugely long-lasting effects on the biosphere, really?