The GP is talking about the dismantling of the Commons in England during the Industrial Revolution.
Anyway, it's not that simple. English even got the term "tragedy of the Commons" to refer to what was happening before the dismantling. Those people still were plainly stolen, yes, but the value what was taken wasn't that clear. Also, people were escaping the Commons into factory jobs way before they were taken.
The males won't pass the mutation to their children, enforcing that it will disappear in 5 or 6 generations... So, if it does anything, it will last for a couple of months at most.
But also, it doesn't slow down the females at all, and the male mosquito population isn't usually the bottleneck on their reproduction.
Plastic used around electronics isn't allowed to burn that well in most of the world. And plastic in large outdoor structures shouldn't burn that well either.
You lose a bit of it every time you recycle, turned into non-recyclable compounds.
You will lose half of it in half a dozen iterations or so. What wouldn't be a big deal if so much of it wasn't single-use, but it is.
Also, aluminum is more polluting to make than most plastics. It may compensate for that with the easiness of recycling or not, depends on lots of details.
The GP is talking about the dismantling of the Commons in England during the Industrial Revolution.
Anyway, it's not that simple. English even got the term "tragedy of the Commons" to refer to what was happening before the dismantling. Those people still were plainly stolen, yes, but the value what was taken wasn't that clear. Also, people were escaping the Commons into factory jobs way before they were taken.